If you have a list of email addresses in an Excel spreadsheet, you can import this into a Mac Address Book by converting the Excel file into a text-based Comma Separated Value file.

While you could tediously copy and paste names and addresses from a text document, with a little know-how in Excel, you can make the process far easier.

With Mavericks' Mail you can't copy a list of unaltered email addresses from Excel to a message's To field. Chris Breen offers an easy-does-it solution.

Excel can send alerts based on spreadsheet data, but you'll need to write a macro to do it. We'll show you how.