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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

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