Deleting Address Book addresses

Question

How does one delete an address from the Address Book?

Answer 1

Let me suggest a couple of approaches, as I am not absolutely sure what you are asking.
If you want to delete an address from your previously sent or received Mail messages but not from the Address Book itself—most often because the address in question is not actually stored in an existing Address Book record—then launch Mail, open a new message window, type enough characters in the To: field so that the address itself of a list of near matches appears (from which you can select the address) then click on the blue bubble, press the white triangle on the right, and from the drop-down menu which appears, select Remove from Previous Recipients List item.
If you want to remove an address from an existing Address Book record but want to leave the remainder of the record intact, launch the Address Book, select your record, press the Edit button at the bottom of the window, then remove each address component by highlighting it, pressing the delete or backspace key, then pressing the Tab key to move to the next field.
If you want to remove an existing Address Book record in its entirety, simply launch the Address Book, highlight the record in the Name column, press the delete or backspace key and confirm the deletion by pressing Delete in the dialog which appears.
If you want to remove a record from an Address Book Group but want to retain the record in your Address Book, select the Group, select the contact record, then press the Delete key. Confirm this deletion by pressing the Remove from Group button in the dialog which appears. When you delete a record from your Address Book, the contact represented by that record is also removed from all Groups it may have been a member of.