Wouldn't it be great if Address Book provided an easy way to export a select group of contacts to an Excel spreadsheet? You can make it happen with Automator's help.

I have a dump of contacts from a different program, it started life as an Excel (old 2003 format xls) file. I need to massage this data to work in modern mail programs, the eventual target is ...

Google Calendar Sync and Gmail's Contacts export and import let you combine information stored in Outlook, your iPhone or other smartphone, and Google's services.