Exporting an address book,
an address or a distribution list, allows you to send
it to a another GroupWise user so they can import it into one
of their personal
address books.
1 Login to GroupWise and open up the address book.
2 Click the Tab of the address book you wish to export or if exporting
a single address or distribution list within the address book
highlight those
items.
3 Click File then click Export.
4 Select either Entire Address Book or Selected Items.
5 Next window will prompt you to name the file and select a location
to save
this file to. Type in a name for the file, it must end with
the extension .nab.
6 You can now send the file you saved in step 5 as an attachment to
someone.
7 Recipient will need to double click the attached .nab file.
A message will then appear asking the user to choose which address
book the
contents of the .nab file should be imported into.
NOTE: If you exported an entire address book. The .nab file will
import
all the users from the address book that was exported into the
address
book you select during the import.
TIP: You can open the file with excel and save it as a spread
sheet
1 Open Excel.
2 Browse to and open
the .nab file that you exported.
3 You should see the
Text Import Wizard window appear.
4 Select “Delimited”
and click next.
5 Select Tab and Comma
and click next.
6 Click finish.
You will now have
the file in a spread sheet format with all the fields
separated in
columns. You may need edit the column headings.
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