Global Editing Contacts

[bstanfield]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

I imported all my Outlook contacts some months ago but every field came with a set of double quotes around the text. I no longer have access to the original file to reimport the data. I need to globally remove the quotes. I can manually edit the other fields that are incorrect, there aren't that many. I've got about 1,000 to edit. It would take too long to manage each contact manually. Also, I have not imported any contacts to my Blackberry since the only software is PC based. Rather than moving the data back and forth, is there software available that will allow use of my Entourage contact file directly? Thanks to all.........

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I imported all my Outlook contacts some months ago but every field came
with a set of double quotes around the text. I no longer have access to
the original file to reimport the data. I need to globally remove the
quotes. I can manually edit the other fields that are incorrect, there
aren't that many. I've got about 1,000 to edit. It would take too long
to manage each contact manually. Also, I have not imported any contacts
to my Blackberry since the only software is PC based. Rather than moving
the data back and forth, is there software available that will allow use
of my Entourage contact file directly? Thanks to all.........

I would export the contacts from Entourage and use an application like
TextWrangler (free) to massively search and replace.
If you know grep-search syntax, it'll be even easier (and TextWrangler
is a great tool for that).

Corentin