Tonya transferred the data out of Contacts by selecting all the cards in her Holiday Cards group and dragging the selection into an empty Numbers sheet. Unfortunately, Contacts can’t export to CSV, just VCF (also known as vCard) and its own ABBU format (which it calls a Contacts archive). To move addresses from Contacts into Avery’s Web app, Tonya needed them in Excel (XLS or XLSX) or CSV (text-only comma-separated values) formats. After some marital disagreement about our label-making process this year, Tonya took over the job and chose to switch from my approach-connecting Contacts to Belight Software’s Swift Publisher-to the Avery Design & Print Online tool. Most Northeast states have ZIP codes that start with zeroes: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, not to mention Puerto Rico and the special delivery military/overseas APO/FPO European destinations. It took a few minutes of staring at the card before Tonya realized the problem. Although we were surprised it took so long, we were more perturbed that we had gotten the address wrong. Why am I writing about holiday cards now, in mid-March? Because two months after we sent out our batch, one of them just bounced back. Amusingly, getting our cards out late has often been rewarded with more conversations with friends because Valentine’s Day cards stand out from those that arrive around Christmas or New Year’s.

We’re not always on target with completing the task in December, and there have been several years when we delayed enough that our New Year’s roundup appeared in the guise of Valentine’s Day cards sent in mid-February. 1647: Focus-caused notification issues, site-specific browser examples, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macsĭealing with Leading Zeroes in Spreadsheet DataĬall us old-fashioned, but Tonya and I still enjoy sending physical holiday cards to summarize the past year for family and friends.#1648: iPhone passcode thefts, Center Cam improves webcam eye contact, APFS Uncertainty Principle.#1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.

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