Beginner's SIG Meeting, May 8, 2003

"Printing the Contents of Your Address Book," by Doug Willougby


Procedure to create a printout of your address book with one name per line.

1. Open Outlook Express, click on File, point to Export and then click on Address Book in the adjoining box that pops up.

2. Choose a format for the export. Here you want the second choice, i.e., Text File (a file with information separated by commas. Click Export

4. In the next box, browse until you find the folder you want to store the addresses in and enter the name of the file in file name box. Select the .csv option in the file type box.

5. Select only the fields that match the intended use for the exported address book. Example: First name, Last name, E mail address and Phone number. Uncheck all the rest of the items. Click OK when done selecting fields.

6. Next, open Microsoft Word or Excel (if you are familiar with spread sheets). Find and open the file and edit it. Or just print it out as it exists. You can select the Edit menu and point to Replace item and click on it. Then you can replace each comma with 2 or 3 blanks to clean up the printout.

7. Next select the file menu, select the print option and print out the file.