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Paste an address and Contacts will parse it Apps
I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but if you copy an address, say from a web site, and paste it into the first address field (street) in Contacts, Contacts will parse appropriately.

For example, try:

1234 Easy St
Pleasantville, CA 43402

When pasted into Contacts it will correctly place the City, State and Zip into the appropriate fields.

[crarko adds: OK, I'll admit I don't know when this was introduced either because I'd long ago stopped looking for it. Nice to know data detectors keeps being improved.]
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Paste an address and Contacts will parse it
Authored by: seika7 on Mar 26, '14 07:06:53AM

Thanks!



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Paste an address and Contacts will parse it
Authored by: benwiggy on Mar 26, '14 07:20:49AM

Seems to work with UK addresses, too -- which isn't always the case.



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Paste an address and Contacts will parse it
Authored by: StrawHousePig on Mar 26, '14 06:19:55PM

Which system is this filed under? OS X 10.9 or iOS 7? Something else?



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Paste an address and Contacts will parse it
Authored by: msadesign on Mar 27, '14 04:49:56AM

This is way cool, thanks. (Remember when OS8 or 9 started figuring out email addresses and web addresses, making them clickable? I get that it's pretty straightforward programming, not that I could do it, but it's cool as hell and really useful, like this hint).



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Paste an address and Contacts will parse it
Authored by: peterholdn on Mar 27, '14 07:16:25AM
I'm still using 10.7.5 (computer is too old to support the new OS), and while this doesn't work for me directly from a website, there's a relatively simple workaround. If I highlight the text and choose "new email with selection" and send it to myself, then scroll over the text in the resulting email, there's an option to create a new contact or add it to an existing contact and it parses everything just fine, including adding it as an additional address. If the selected text includes a phone number, it recognizes that and parses that into a phone field as well. If it includes a name and/or company name, it parses those (including first and last names) into the right fields, too. Doesn't seem to know what to do with dates. Not sure if that's easier than just pasting it into the comment of a new contact and then cut and paste to parse it, but it's an available option.--- Relax, it's only ones and zeroes.
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Relax, it's only ones and zeroes.
Edited on Mar 27, '14 07:17:23AM by peterholdn


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