I want to import a list of several contacts. I am using a tab delimited
text file. How do I make them go to the same category? I do not see any
provision for that under the file>import option. They all go the "none"
category.
To do it automatically, you'd need to import by AppleScript instead. (My
scripts "Export-Import Entourage X" will do it for you.) As a
rough-and-ready way of doing what you want (all contacts from this import to
a particular category) when you import via File-Import, include a "column"
(field) for "Category" in your tab-delimited text and fill in the value
"Whatever Name" (the real name of the category) for every contact in that
column. When you import, map "Category" field to an unused Custom Field in
Entourage - for example Custom 4 in the Import assistant (wizard).
After the import, add a Custom 4 column to the Address Book. (View-->
Columns--> Custom 4). Then click on the Custom 4 header, so the Address Book
sorts by Custom 4 column. All the contacts with your chosen "Whatever Name"
value will be grouped together. Shift-click the top and bottom of those to
select them all. Then click anywhere in the (real, built-in) Categories
column within the selection, or control-click anywhere at all within the
selection and select Categories-->, and select "Whatever Name" category.
That will apply the chosen category to all the selected contacts.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <
http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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