Jeroen

Try DataText To Columns, with a comma as the separator.

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"Annemarie en Jeroen" wrote in message
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Exporting categories from msoutlook contacts to excel



In our company we still use msword97, excel97 and outlook with this
version
(it is true!).

All our companycontacts (1000) are in outlook/contacts and we use many
company related categories in contacts. When I export the contacts to
excel,
the categories are placed in one cell, separated by a column (or semi
colon??). When I try to mail merge from the category column in excel in
word, I cannot make extractions from the category column. Is there anybody
who can tell me how to solve this problem?

The problem again in short: I cannot make a mailmerge only for certain
categories from outlook contacts (the 97-version). By the way; I also have
problems doing this in later versions. I am very glad if anybody can help
me
out.

Maybe a more simple question; how do you separate text that is in one cell
of excel and transfer it to different cells?



Thanks in advance!



Jeroen

(working for Dutch government)