Address Book label field selection

Hi there. I have OS Lion. In Address Book I store Prefix, Forename and Surname. But on the mailing label want to just print the Prefix and Surname. Can't find a way to edit the field selection for the label!!!! Any help much appreciated.

That "*do not* first click on EDIT" hint from you, Michael, will save me much future misery. THANK YOU! How nice it would be if Apple fixed the problem. It could be as simple as allowing multiple undo's. If you catch your mistake on the first keystroke, you're okay. That second keystroke is the big problem. I use "notes" in Address Book to store all kinds of information: passwords, phone conversation histories, order confirmation numbers, just to name a few. Even using care I've lost data. And I kick myself for having known better. Now I'll only click EDIT when I'm entering data "above the line."

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Is there a way in the address book label printing to select the position of one label to be printed on, let's say, a 30 label sheet of Avery standard? Many times I just want to print one address label but have a sheet of labels that have several labels missing. I want to be able to select the start position as to where the label is printed, otherwise it always wants to print in the first row, first label and I have to use a brand new sheet of label paper so use up the 2 #1 postions. (Turn it upside down)
Thanks,
Glen

Hello:
Unfortunately Address Book only prints a contact name or a company name on a label. Hopefully this will change in a future version.

Is there a way to send an e-mail to everyone in my address book WITHOUT typing/selecting each address in individually?

My old e-mail address is going to be discontinued and I need to notify everyone in my Mozilla Thunderbird address book. Is there a way to send an e-mail to everyone in my address book WITHOUT typing/selecting each address in individually?

Bonjour zmerill
Yes it is possible and simple to do.
- In the compose window of TB, display the address books on the left
- select the adress book you want
- select normally the first contact (left click)
- while pressing a shift key, select the last contact (--> all selected)
- just under the last contact, use the button you want.
In an address book it is also possible to create a mailing list.
Pierre

Address book - labels layout - other formats

Hello Forum
Does anyone know of a collection of other layouts for the address book label layouts. At the moment I only see Avery std, Avery A4 and DYMO.
There's a whole set of labels of other label makers eg DECAdry that I don't find in the list. Nor do I know of (or find) a site that maps DECAdry on Avery equivalents.
I can of course simply add it as custom layout but I was wondering if there were other alternatives?

Mike,
you might wish to give AB Transfer a try:
http://www.turingart.com/abtlan_en.htm
It is a solution to import, export or convert AB data.
Regards,
seaside

UNBELIEVABLE ADDRESS BOOK label printing still archaic

Unreal. Address book label printing is a joke. So they still have not looked at the several phonecalls with suggestions i left with techsupport in regards to the fact that you CANNOT change the position of the label you want an address printed on, therefore wasting a whole avery sheet for just one label everytime you print. What a way to save the environment Apple. Think different.

Yes, this is incredibly silly. Drives me nuts everytime I want to print a label, so I do it in Word. Dumb.

Address Book Labels

Anyone know why it is that having imported all my contacts from Palm Desktop, address book labels all the email addresses as either "work", "home", or "other"?
Surely "email" would be more appropriate...
And can I do anything about it, other than manually change all 375 contacts?
Thanks,
Mark

Mike,
you might wish to give AB Transfer a try:
http://www.turingart.com/abtlan_en.htm
It is a solution to import, export or convert AB data.
Regards,
seaside

How to import attachment into Address Book "Notes" field

Is it possible to import an attachment into the Address Book "Notes" field? Jpg, PDF, pages doc, whatever...? Don't really care if the file is "visible" (IE if photo, can actually SEE photo)... a clickable icon would be fine.
Thanks
Ian

Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
I'm not aware of any direct connector provided by RIM for this purpose. They do supply an ASCII/CSV import capability...see this KB:
KB11194 How to import contacts from an CSV file to the BlackBerry device
You'd have to find out from AOL how to get your contacts exported to an ASCII or CSV file.
Good luck and let us know!
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Address Book Department Field Fails to Sync

The department field from my iMac won't transfer to the department field on my iBook and vice versa. The department field will be populated in one, but blank in the other. The number of contacts in my address books are equal. The contacts are updated, but without the right department field.
I've restarted my computers. I've updated the software from the apple menue. I've restarted my computers.
I try to use all of Address Book's fields. Shall I stop using the fields other than name and address? My only other option is to put the other data in the notes field. I don't have time to double check my data everytime I sync.

I don't have any ideas, Jack, but I do have the same problem. It's something that just popped up—one of those things that seemed to work one day and not the next. The data is there, it's just not populating the field in Address Book. Strange... and annoying.

Address book : modify field content to group or multiple selection ... ?

I'm looking for a way to modify multiple cards in the address book,
I mean, I have a group and I want to add a comment to all the cards in this group.
any idea ?

thx for the quick response VK
I sync with an iPhone but not mobile me.
I corrected 25 sync conflicts a few moments ago but that did not help the situation
I rebooted and ran a few YASU scripts... that did not help either
I removed pref files and still have the same bug rearing its ugly head in the notes field
I rebuilt the AB DB and... the bug is still occurring
interesting news is that:
I added a new record and the bug did not occur!
I copied one of the offending records and then edited the copy by deleting the first 3 lines of notes.. this resulted in the same bug (the first 3 lines reappeared)
I then clicked the EDIT button and replaced the first 3 lines of notes with text
and the change was saved... this worked.
Then I deleted the offending record and checked back with the copy that I just created... it was fine
the issue is that when I edit an existing record, I will have no assurance that my edit is saved after I leave that record and continue to another one...
hope you have some ideas
so that I can trust AB once again
thanks..
what next?
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CAUTION-MAJOR BUG Address Book's "Merge Selected Cards" DELETES CONTENT!

I have just realized (after losing much data) that when using the Merge Selected Cards function within the Apple Address Book that it will, without notification, delete content! That's right, if the two cards share different data but have the same field labels, Address Book will merge the two and simply keep the content in the 1st record (deleting the content in the 2nd).
For example... Two records (same contact), one record with a home-email and home-number and one with a work-email and work-number. However since both happen to have default field labels of "email" and "number" when you select "Merge..." you don't end up with two emails/numbers in the merged contact you actually only have the content from the 1st record.
Essentially "Merge Selected Records" = "Delete 2nd Record"
This is a major error. The feature should be removed asap until it is corrected!!

This bug still affects the Address Book v5.0.3 which is updated with the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update which has just been released.
Apple have been notified of this bug as far back as November 2009.
There are at least 3 separate RADAR bug reports about this issue.
There have been 3 Mac OS Snow Leopard updates since the bug was reported to them. The bug has not been fixed in any of these updates.
The bug does not affect Address Book v5.0
It does affect Address Book v5.0.1
It does affect Address Book v5.0.2
It does affect Address Book v5.0.3
Apple were notified in November 2009 after Address Book v5.0.1 was released that this problem existed. We also told Apple customer support. We told the Apple Store Regent Street Geniuses. We emailed Apple Developer Bug Reporting and were initial told they were aware of it, then we received no more replies.
The original thread in the forums detailing this issue is now archived even though the bug remains. So we cannot reply and update that thread.
We suggest you try and make as many people at Apple aware of this issue as we think it is very poor that they are aware of a serious data loss bug for 12 months and havent rectified it in many software and Address Book app updates.
Edward
Equinox News Pictures Ltd.
+448700780000

Address Book Label Layout

I'm using mail to print address labels. Several addressees are couples with different last names. If I list one of the couple as a spouse or partner in my address book, the program will list both names on the first line of the label. However, it's inconsistent, doing it with some couples entries and not others. I don't see any difference in the individual entries to explain the different layout. Has anybody had this experience?

I found the solution in the "spouse" thread. Thomas Corper said," Select "print", then go to "LABEL" tab. Once in there, change "addresses:all" to your distribution list. It gets rid of all the other names you have and just includes the title name."

IOS 5.0.1 Can't Show OS X Lion Address Book Profile Fields?

In OS X Lion, Apple introduced Profile fields into the Address Book:
Social network profiles
Address Book lets you quickly access the social network profiles of your contacts, including Facebook. Press and hold an email address to select the appropriate profile.
So, I filled this all in on my Mac. But then I synced my iPhone (running iOS 5.0.1) with my iMac, and discovered that the Contacts app on the iPhone doesn't show these fields. Is this true, or have I done something wrong?

I'm going to try that next.
What I just tried was creating a New Card in Address Book on my Mac and filling in these fields:
• First Name
• Last Name
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Flickr
I then synced my iPhone with my Mac, via iTunes.
The new card showed up in Contacts on my iPhone, but only the First Name and Last Name are visible. The three Profile fields I filled in are not there! Clearly this is a bug.

Can't sync Address Book note field to iPhone contacts

Hi:
I make heavy use of the "note:" field in my MacBook Address Book app. I store all kinds of detailed info about people, organizations, etc. in that field. I would like to be able to access that information on my iPhone 3G, but the phone's Contacts app has no corresponding "note" field.
Could this be a result of the way I imported data into my MacBook when I first got it?
In searching the fora, I found several people who said their iPhone contacts sync nicely with the Address Book note, and others who say it doesn't sync at all. Can anyone please shed some light on this for me?
Thanks!

Not quite sure what you mean by "editing" but I've tried every method of selecting, deleting, cursor placement, backspacing, and typing I can think of -- again, with and without the Edit button clicked. I did seem to accumulate a huge number of duplicates along the way, and there were more than a thousand cards in my Address Book; maybe I went over the limit?

Don't want to sync Address Book "Note:" field

Does anyone know how customize the syncing of Contacts from Address Book so that everything but the "Note:" field is synced?
FYI, I'm syncing to a Palm Treo 700p (Verizon Wireless).
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It's not possible to change the conduit field content and label mapping in the iSync Palm Conduit to include additional fields or exclude the Note: field. There is no provision to turn include or exclude data globally, or on a record by record basis.
While you still do not get all of those options with the Missing Sync for Palm OS with the Mark/Space Contacts conduit, you get far better support for categories and groups, contact photographs or icons, additional address fields, a URL and IM address, and more telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses:
http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php

Script to drop text into Address Book "note" field?

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this: I have about 6000 contacts and wanted to organize them by putting category descriptions of each contact into the notes field: ie, "friend," "architect," "designer," etc. Once done, they will be easy to keep organized via smart groups.
Could a script be written to do this? My contacts are already broken out into "dumb" groups, so could a script simply drop a note for all members of an existing group? Or all selected contacts?
The trick will be to add the text without wiping out any existing text. That way each contact could be assigned to more than one category.
This would be a very useful script, because Address Book does not presently have the "category" feature than other contact managers have, such as Entourage.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Suggestion:
6000 contacts - That's a lot. Before you get too carried away, I would add delimiters such as:
[note]" & contentsof_existingnote & "[/note]" & return, AND
[category]" & _category & "[/category]" & return
You could then add other functions to your AddressBook note field. I do this regularly and have added;
[addressee2] to add a roomates, significant other, or spouse that wanted to keep her maiden name and want to formerly include on an invitation or xmas card.
Mr. John Smith
Dr. Karen Jones, M.D. [addressee2, roomate, significant other]
1234 W. 56th Street
Anytown, ST, Zip
[spouse] spouse; review your contact list and greet them with "How is your wife Karen?"
[xmasprefix] mainly to add "Mr. & Mrs." to your contacts
[xmasfamily] include a personal touch; "and family"
Others, [iphotolinks], [envelopegraphic], [envelopeAttn_]
All kinds of possibilities here.
G4 powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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