I have imported vcf files into excel 2003 and the column looks like
this:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N: (some data)
FN: (some data)
MN: (some data)
X-VOIP-USERNAME: (some data)
X-VOIP-PSTNNUMBER:(some data)
X-VOIP-DISPLAYNAME:(some data)
X-VOIP-SEX:(some data)
X-VOIP-COUNTRY:(some data)
BDAY:(some data)
ADR:(some data)
TEL;CELL:(some data)
END:VCARD

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N: (some data)
FN: (some data)
LN: (some data)
X-VOIP-USERNAME: (some data)
X-VOIP-PSTNNUMBER:(some data)
X-VOIP-DISPLAYNAME:(some data)
X-VOIP-SEX:(some data)
X-VOIP-COUNTRY:(some data)
ADR:(some data)
TEL;CELL:(some data)
END:VCARD
Each person's data is bounded by the BEGIN:VCARD and the END:VCARD.
I want to turn this into a spreadsheet with all the categories (e.g.
FN, LN, N, ADR, etc) as columns. A simple text-to-columns operation
won't work, as some the entries don't contain all the data (for
example, some have FN, MN,LN but others have only FN and LN) and if
transposed to columns, the info won't match up across the rows.
I've made some headway by highlighting a certain category (e.g. CITY
-- there were 37 out of 879 out of 879 begin--end groups, then
changing an all unneeded category like COUNTRY to CITY:00, then
manually deleting 37 extraneous CITY:00 from the files which
originally had had a CITY category. Time consuming to say the least,
and I've discovered there is a category I wish to keep, but it shows
up in 175 of the files --- there's got to a better way.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
Thank you