Address book directories view not acessible

Hi
I'm having a problem with address book. In the 'view' pane, I can only access two of the three possibillities: "Card" and "columns". "Directories" is in grey and I cannot click on it. I want to see the directories view, so I can see a list of addresses or telephonenumber, ordered by name.
what am I doing wrong?

"Directories" is for use with a network shared directory service system such as Microsoft Exchange or LDAP. Are you on such a system? If not, and your Address Book is only standalone and local to your computer, that view will not be valid for you.

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