Email Addresses from Contacts

Is there a way to convert / extract the email address from the values in a column set up as a contact? I have a need for the email address associated with contacts.
Thanks
Answers
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There are three ways I know of. The first method is easy and recommended..😀
Method 1: Change a contact list column's property to text/number
Then, use the <email> part using the TEXT functions. The merit of this method is you get the email information of users not belonging to your organization.
Changed the Contact List column property to Text/Number
I changed the contact list column property back to the contact list.
Method 2: User List report
Go to the user management in Adamin Center and get the user list.
The demerit of this method is you get information only from users in your organization.
Method 3: Smartsheet API
Use the List Contacts or List Users method. Then, compare with the Contact List's name value.
https://smartsheet.redoc.ly/tag/contacts#operation/list-contacts
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Hi
There is not a way to automatically extract the email address from a contact type cell without an App or API.
However, if the list isn't changing too much, you can get the emails out manually without too much effort.
- Create a new column (Text/Number type). In the example I have called this "Text Contact".
- Select the contacts you want to get email addresses for.
- Copy and paste them to the new column. The contacts will appear as NAME <EMAIL>.
- Create another new column (Text/Number type).
- Use a formula like the one below to strip out everything except the email address.
=SUBSTITUTE(MID([Text Contact]@row, FIND("<", [Text Contact]@row) + 1, LEN([Text Contact]@row) - (FIND("<", [Text Contact]@row) + 1)), ">", "")
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Thank you both for these options. I'm sure one of these will work.
Matt
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@KPH Your solution works great, if you manually copy/paste the Contact to the new column (Text/Number). I've checked out other threads and I haven't seen a solution (yet) that you can do this automatically (e.g., create new Helper column that displays Name <Email>, then use your MID function to extract just the email. With this method, and not using a manual Copy/Paste, Smartsheet considers even this column as just a Name, no Email address.
Has there been any more changes in Smartsheet that enable an ability to automatically extract the email from a Contact?
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