So what do you do from here? Well, if you’re an iWork user, you can open that. And see QuickBooks let’s me know that the file has been successfully created. I click OK and enter a filename for my export file. For this example, I’m just going to export my customer names. Or you can choose Selected Names and then select specific names to include in your export file.
You also just select one of these lists to export. You can select All Names which will export all the contact information you in QuickBooks, and that would everyone in your Customer, Vendor, Employee, or Other Names list. Choose File > Export > Addresses to Text File. And there you can create labels or a letter for your customer mailing. What you can do is export your customers’ names and addresses and then import that into a word processing program, like Word or Pages. “I’m moving my business, and I want to send a postcard to all my customers to let them know my new address. Hi, I’m Shelly with the QuickBooks for Mac team, and I’m going to answer a question someone emailed to us here at Little Square Central. Remember letters? Those things you put in a mailbox and they arrived somewhere else a few days later? Here’s how you can export your contact lists in QuickBooks to use with the Mail Merge feature in other programs like iWork’s Pages or Microsoft Word so you can send mail to your customers.
