How to Export Something to Excel. Many applications support data and report exports to the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format. Most contact management tools, such as those included with email ...

Wouldn't it be great if Address Book provided an easy way to export a select group of contacts to an Excel spreadsheet? You can make it happen with Automator's help.

Nerd alert! This method requires a jailbroken iPhone and some FTP and DB skills. The end result does give you a spreadsheet-friendly file that includes your entire history of text messages in it ...