Years ago I wrote the ultimate address book that has people and addresses as separate tables in a database where people can have more than one address.  It worked well.  Now I want to use something in the cloud, and can’t find anything that works as elegantly.  To keep things simple I plan to use Google contacts.

Easy.  Export my contacts, patch them together in Excel and import them as a google CSV.

Except that google exports in one format but is unable to import back again!?  Very frustrating, and their help files are dreadful giving no help at all on field headings.

At least they allow you to roll back your contacts, so my mistakes were able to be fixed. 

Later:  I eventually sorted it out, but it took a lot of pain to do so.