Using Numbers as an Address Book?

I do not yet have iWork 08, but I was wondering if I can use Numbers as a second address book, with email, contacts and web pages etc. I would like to be able to copy and paste addresses straight into mail as you would from address book.
I am really just trying to separate my address book into work contacts versus personal, and with work contacts, I need to index them into several categories. I know I can do this with smart groups in address book, just looking to create 2 separate books as mentioned earlier.

As Pages is trying to "speak" to the AddressBook program, I assumes that it would not be a good track to duplicate the app.
My guess would be that you may solve the problem with an AppleScript allowing you to swap two sets of AddressBook data files.
The idea would be to:
enter the folder:
<bootVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Application Support:AddressBook:
create two subfolders
one named "dataSet1" and one named "dataset2"
move the five files existing in the folder into "dataset1".
After that, launch AddressBook to build a new set of datas.
When this new set will be OK, move it into "dataset2".
This being done,
when you want to work with the first set, duplicate the contents of dataset1 into the standard folder
when you want to work with the 2nd set, duplicate the contents of dataset2 into the standard folder
Of course, before replacing a "set1" by a "set2" it would be safe to copy the set1 into dataset1 to protect the "recent changes".
It's a bit of trickery but it is a viable approach.
It's the way I would work if I was using Bento. Doing that, I would be able to use different documents to store different kinds of infos.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 1 juin 2008 16:03:30)

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Greetings,
Sorry, but there's no way to do what you want. The only way to avoid using a middle name in the To: field is for you to delete that from your contact, and from the Previous Recipients list in Mail. The same would be true for those contacts where you have a nickname.
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nushuz,
I can sympathize if you're having trouble following the directions. Address Book will reject what looks like a perfectly good CSV file if it doesn't like the data it finds inside.
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I wonder if someone can help? I imported a few hundred contacts via a Gmail created vCard into my Address Book. The problem is that instead of inserting the email addresses into one of the email fields for each record, it has inserted the email address into the Notes field as follows: "EmailAddress: [email protected]".
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This should work:
tell application "Contacts"
activate
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save
end tell
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Normally when I post an AppleScript like this I tell the user to test it out before using it on the actual data but in this case I don;t know how you'd do that given there is only one Contacts and only one Contacts database.
Just make sure you have a backup just in case. I tried it here on some dummy entries in my Contacts and it worked OK.
Again this totaly relies on the data you presented. The Notes field has to be in the format
EmailAddress:[email protected]
for this to work.
regards
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Hi, I can't imagine what is doing it, but since nobody has replied yet, I'll throw this out...
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Might also see this...
Remove duplicated field data in iCal and Address Book Apps...
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051217000214536&lsrc=osxh

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quick&dirty, but it works 8-)
-- hubionmac.com 06.02.2011
-- quick&dirty script for exporting contacts as single vCards
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try
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on error
close access RefNum
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try
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activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "0" using command down --show address-window not matter what...
end tell
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set theaction to button returned of (display dialog "Process all or just selection?" buttons {"All", "Selection", "cancel"} default button {"Selection"})
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set a to every person whose selected is true
else
set a to people
end if
else
set a to people
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error "error on getitem_2process" & return & msg
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end if
else
return n
end if
end checknamewith_pdfsuffix
on display_message(msgTXT, msgTimeout)
tell application "System Events"
set isRunning to ¬
(count of (every process whose name is "GrowlHelperApp")) > 0
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if isRunning = true then
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{"Status"}
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set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
{"Status"}
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default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
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"Status" title ¬
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msgTXT application name ¬
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activate
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