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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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