Exporting your address book – DeLorme 6 User Manual

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• You can resize the columns inside the Address Book dialog box.

Exporting Your Address Book

You can export your address book to another program using the Export function in
the Address Book dialog box. Exported address books are in DeLorme Address Book

binary format (*.dab) or comma-separated file (*.csv) format. Latitude and
longitude values are not exported.

To Export Your Address Book

Use the following steps to export your address book.

1. Click the Find tab.

2. Click the Address Book button

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The DeLorme Address Book dialog box opens.

3. Click Export.

The Save As dialog box opens.

4. Browse to the location where you want to save the exported address book

file.

5. Type the file name for your exported file in the File Name text box.
6. Select DeLorme Address Book (*.dab) or Comma-separated File

(*.csv) from the Save as Type drop-down list. DeLorme Address Book files
retain all of their information and can be imported into compatible DeLorme

programs. Comma-separated files do not contain coordinate information. You

can view text files in third-party applications such as Microsoft Excel.

7. Click Save.
8. Click OK to acknowledge the export location.
9. Click Done.

Notes

• The address book has a 200-record limit.
• You can resize and move the Address Book dialog box.
• You can resize the columns inside the Address Book dialog box.

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