You can do IT in later lifeJune 2006
You can do IT is a regular feature of laterlife.com aimed at trying to help laterlife visitors make the most of Information Technology on or off the web. Jackie Sherman who runs the You can do IT Question & Answer section is an IT trainer and author. Jackie has spent her career in education and specialises in teaching IT to adults. Her courses for adults include such topics as MS Office, the Internet, e-mail and basic web page authoring. Jackie has also written several books - you can find more details about these by clicking here. Jackie has also been running a course specifically for over 50s. Via laterlife.com Jackie aims to particularly help those new to IT and the web to build up knowledge and confidence, so no question is too basic. At the same time she will cover Q&As for the more experienced user. So if you would like to ask a question of Jackie, or if you have discovered something which may be of interest to others in making the most of the web, then she would love to hear about that too. Why not email her jackie@laterlife.com June 2006
Q: I have a word processed document that just contains the email addresses of people I need to write to. Is there any way to add them to my Outlook Express address book that won't involve typing in each one manually?
A: This is quite a complex task, but you can do it if you follow these steps: 1. Turn the text into a table
To do this, every
text entry in the document must be separated from the next by
the same "delimiter" e.g. a tab, comma or space. Select all the
text in the document and then open the Table menu and
select Convert – Text to Table. (This is always a useful
skill to learn as text is often better displayed in table
format, and you can sort it much more easily!)
2. Convert a table
to a CSV file 3. Import addresses into Outlook Express
Open the email
package and go to File – Import. Select Other Address
Book and in the window that opens, select Text file (Comma
Separated Values). Now click Import and browse for the file you
saved before clicking Next.
As you want to
produce a list of e-mail addresses, you must set this up as the
correct category (field). Click the Change Mapping button and
select Email Address from the drop-down list you will be offered
before clicking OK.
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