Judith, You can give the address book any name you want. I use my E Mail name. Go to Export, press enter, then you need to choose address book and press enter, then arrow down to comma separated values, then tab to export and hit the space bar, then it will ask you save export file as, here type the name you want to save the address book as, next tab to browse and hit the space bar and browse to where you want to save your address book, when you have chosen where you want it press enter on the chosen location, Then you need to tab down to save and hit the space bar, then you will be asked how you want to save it, here choose by name ( forth choice down ), not first name but by name, tab to next, here you may hear a click and it will say you have completed exporting and then all you have to do tab until you hear finish or close select that choice each time until you close out of the export process completely, which when done should put you back in your in box. Hope this is clear enough, if not I'll be glad to try again. If it is great and have a very Merry Christmas. Tippy ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:11 PM Subject: Re: selecting address book, re-modified What should the command line read? Are you saying that I should simply type "address book"? Sorry for my ignorance but I don't understand completely. Thanks, Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Tippy To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:05 PM Subject: Re: selecting address book, re-modified Judith, When asked how you want to save the address book, choose comma separated values and then choose by name ( forth choice down in that combo box ) not first name, but just name. If you do it this way you'll be able to open your address book where ever you save it and read it in a very easy to read text. The import and export are very easy to do this way too. Hope this helps. Tippy ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:27 AM Subject: Re: selecting address book, re-modified I just did all this but my: C:\my documents\address book.doc ended up as a document with a lot of gibberish. my export to c:\my documents\address book.wab ended up in the format of the address book with nothing below the first option line. Now what? Tahnks, Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Whitefang To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:30 PM Subject: selecting address book, re-modified Hi: 1. Open the addressbook by hitting alt for the menu, then go to tools and arrowing down to to addressbook and hit enter. 2. Next, hit alt-f for files, then arrow down to export, press enter. 3. Select addressbook from the list, then press enter 4. Type in a filename, then tab once for file type and select either .wab or plain text. 5. Next tab to where you make your selection for where you want the file to be exported too, and make your selection. 6. Next tab to save and press enter. This should do it.. Wayne ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:48 PM Subject: selecting address book I want to select my address book so I can back it up on cd. I tried going to the address book, hitting control a to select all and the address book wouldn't select. Does anyone have any adcvice? Thanks, Judith