Accessing Address Book Menus

New mac user here. How do I get to menus in the Address Book program? I want to import contacts from vcards exported from outlook but I see no menus at all in Address Book when I start it up.
TIA

Try going to the Window menu and select Address Book from the list of choices. To import vCards, go to File > Import > vCards.
Mulder

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I was wondering if there is a way to access Address Book data from the terminal. For instance, I would
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this script could be used in Terminal (save the code below as
"getaddress" and mark it as executable):
case $# in
2) firstname=$1; lastname=$2;;
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How can I access Address Book information from other applications (notably the command line, OpenOffice, etc.)?
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aneez_backer wrote:
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easy on all caps there
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shn1282 wrote:
I just got a new MacBook Pro using Snow Leopard. I had cloned everything from my old machine (a Mac Pro using Tiger) onto an external hard drive and now I'm having some issues accessing information from certain applications.
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