Mac Forum / Applications / Entourage / October 2008

You can filter your contacts by category and then export them as .vcf files
simply by selecting them all and dragging them to the desktop.
Alternatively, you could use AppleScript to write all your category names
into one of the custom fields; that way, the category names will be
maintained if you export your contacts as a text file (File>Export). I don't
know who wrote this script, but I assume it was one of the MVPs:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
   set MyContacts to every contact
   set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {";"}
   repeat with OneContact in MyContacts
       tell OneContact
           try
               set CategoryList to category of OneContact
               repeat with i from 1 to (count CategoryList)
                   set OneCategory to item i of CategoryList
                   set item i of CategoryList to name of OneCategory -- or
ID
               end repeat
               set MyCategory to CategoryList as Unicode text
           end try
           set custom field eight to MyCategory
       end tell
   end repeat
   set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""} -- restore
   activate
   beep
   display dialog "Done!"
end tell

Open ScriptEditor, copy/paste the above script and save it. See here for
more details on the use of AppleScript in Entourage:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/index.html>

On 09/10/08 7:13, in article 59b5c1db.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

Here is another option to create a tab delimited file for a specific
category;

Import Export Contacts
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/contacts.html#group>