| A.CSV stands for comma separated values. It is a text only format; the fields are enclosed in quotation marks and separated by commas. A portion of my SBC Yahoo address book opened in MS Word looks like this:
"First","Middle","Last","Nickname","Email","Category",
"Distribution Lists","MessengerD","Home","Work","Pager","Fax",
"Mobile","Other","Yahoo! Phone",
"Primary","Alternate Email 1",
"Alternate Email 2","Personal Website",
"Business Website","Title","Company","Work Address",
"Work City","Work State",
"Work ZIP","Work Country",
"Home Address","Home City","Home State","Home ZIP",
"Home Country","Birthday","Anniversary","Custom 1","Custom 2",
"Custom 3",
"Custom 4","Comments","Messenger ID1",
"Messenger ID2","Messenger ID3",
"Messenger ID4",
"Messenger ID5","Messenger ID6","Messenger ID7",
"Messenger
D8","Messenger ID9","Skype ID","IRC ID",
"ICQ ID",
"Google ID","MSN ID",
"AIM ID","QQ ID"
"Mary","","Phillips","","mphillip1@sbcglobal.net",
"ICONofficers","ICONmembers","","","","","","","","","","",
"","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",
"","","","","","","","","","","",
"","","",""
Opened in MS Excel, it looks like this
Because of the text only format, a .csv file can be imported into many other address books, databases, and other programs.
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