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Jim Coates, in his technology column this week in local newspapers, tells how to copy your AOL address book. I don't use AOL but was looking for the answer for someone else. Here it is and good luck!! I have a new computer and want to transfer the names and addresses in my America Online address book. How can I (or can I) send my address book on my Quadra 950 AOL account to my new G4 via e-mail? Howard Sandifer @mediaone.net A. You're a lucky man to own that G4, which is Apple Computer Inc.'s hottest new desktop computer, Mr. S. And you're blessed again in that AOL has instituted movable address books for Macs and PCs alike since you bought that now elderly Quadra back when Steve Jobs was just another billionaire moviemaker and before his resurgence as Apple's CEO for Life. Windows and Mac users alike simply fire up their old machines, run AOL and select the Address Book choice from the Mail Center option at the top of the screen. You will find a Save/Replace icon at the bottom of the Address Book display. Click it and you will be prompted to create a file with all your addresses. That file can either be saved to a floppy disk and moved between computers or, as you say, it can be e-mailed and then restored on another computer's AOL software. The AOL software for Windows and Mac alike walks users through both the saving and the replacing process. This feature was added in the AOL 5.0 software that shipped in 1999 and is a most welcome improvement to those of us who have repeatedly lost those address books every time we changed computers. -- Michele Missner Library information specialist emeritus Appleton, Wi. missnerm@athenet.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=