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herbivore

Problem with csv file
 

I have a mailing list that I imported from Paypal into Excel. I'm going
to be importing the email addresses into MailDrop to send out mass
emails to my customers.

What I have is a csv file with a long column of about 3000 cells of
emails. I need everyone of these emails to have two commas in front of
it for it to import into MailDrop, merely having it as a csv file is not
working, it has to have the actual commas in front of each address. I
need to find out, in the most dumbed-down terms possible, how to add
these commas without manually going into each cell and doing it. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. I am using a Mac as well.


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Gord Dibben

Problem with csv file
 
Assuming email addresses in Column A...........

In B1 enter =",," & A1

Double-click on B1 fill handle to copy down.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:27:44 -0400, herbivore
wrote:


I have a mailing list that I imported from Paypal into Excel. I'm going
to be importing the email addresses into MailDrop to send out mass
emails to my customers.

What I have is a csv file with a long column of about 3000 cells of
emails. I need everyone of these emails to have two commas in front of
it for it to import into MailDrop, merely having it as a csv file is not
working, it has to have the actual commas in front of each address. I
need to find out, in the most dumbed-down terms possible, how to add
these commas without manually going into each cell and doing it. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. I am using a Mac as well.



herbivore

Problem with csv file
 

That worked great, but I can't have 2 columns visible in the file. How
do I get rid of the original column with the information still intact?
The program that I'm importing it into won't merge those 2 columns
together and it's not importing correctly.

Thanks for your help.


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Gord Dibben

Problem with csv file
 
Copy the new column and in place, EditPaste SpecialValuesOKEsc

Now delete the original column.


Gord

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:12:06 -0400, herbivore
wrote:


That worked great, but I can't have 2 columns visible in the file. How
do I get rid of the original column with the information still intact?
The program that I'm importing it into won't merge those 2 columns
together and it's not importing correctly.

Thanks for your help.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


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