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Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes?

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On 09/29/2015 12:52 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Exactly.  I despise the vcard thing -- it's incredibly wasteful of
>> everything possible.  All I ever want is name / phone# / email address
>> in a simple text or pdf file.  It's a constant annoyance that I can't
>> easily convert Thunderbird's addressbook into a simple list of name and
>> email address (one name per line) without going through a spreadsheet
>> (LOTS of editing) and then a word processor to get a simple one-page
>> multi-column list of my 1500 contacts :-(
>
>    I don't understand the "LOTS of editing" bit.
>
>    I don't 'do' speadsheets myself, but isn't it trivial for a
> spreadsheet program to convert a CSV (or tabSV) file to a CSV/tabSV/
> <whatever> text file in the desired format?

Yabbut...

>    Or you could export-import TB's addressbook to Windows Live Mail and
> export-import it back to TB in the desired format! (Just kidding!)

The problem is names.  Most of the entries were collected from email 
that I answered, and people use various formats for their names.  There 
are several 'name' fields so I have to integrate them into one EACH TIME 
I run a list.

I can SEE the addressbook with only the 'name' (apparently TB does 
something magical) and 'email address' fields, why can't I export ONLY 
those?

What idiot wants to print his addressbook with 6 or 7 entries per page?

-- 
Cheers, Bev
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      Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 11:45 -0700
        Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-29 19:52 +0000
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