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."

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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

Another Address Book label question

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.

Address book labels doubled?

I'm trying to print some labels from Address Book and I noticed that most addresses are doubled. I have a suspicion it has something to do with iCloud. My Address book has iCloud as a header for my groups. I have selected the group I wish to print labels for with 151 records. When I check out the print setup it says I have 263 address records to print. When I look closely at the print preview I see that there are two of most of my addresses. When I look back in my address book I do not see any duplicates. What I can I do to remove the duplicates from my labels?

I've just noticed the same phenomenon, despite not having mobile me or iCloud. I'm using 10.6.8. When i start an old mac using 10.5.8 everything functions correctly. I have 23 adresses to print and the final amount being printed has risen to 34 due to some being duplicated.
Have just sortrd my problem. I chose Menu>Card>Look For Duplicates and ran the merge option. I had to do this about 10 times. I closed and restarted Address Book at one point. Eventually, no more duplicates were found by the routine and hey presto, no more duplicate labels!
Hope this helps.

Address book labels Question

In the address book: I'M trying to print avery labels with both company name contact name above the address any way this can be done?
powerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I don't have the answer, but I want to go on record as having the same problem. I've tried everything to eliminate the selected image, but I can't figure out how to do so. I would happily edit a plist file if someone knew where this was stored. Thanks!

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."

Address Book label printing incorrect

I am getting spouse & child details printing on some address labels in one group and on all labels in another group. These fields are not supposed to be there at all.
'(Title, first name, surname) and (spouse/child fields)'
What can be done to correct this?
I'm using Avery A4 J8157 stock.

Hi All, it's Christmas time again and I'm having the same problem - random family additions to the contact name, and it didn't happen last year. My ugly work-around is to invoke the Maiden Name field and cut and paste all the family contacts into there. At least the names don't get forgotten and it sorts out the label problem.
Like others, the fact that Apple doesn't have the decency to acknowledge a problem so we all know where we are, makes me seethe. Who are we anyway? Just a bunch of idiot customers? I'll send an email to Steve Jobs, but the chances of a reply are those of a snowball in Hades.
eMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) LaCie external disk, 3 other Macs + PC on home network

Address Book Label Prinitng woe's

How can i print my Me card's address all over an Avery sheet. Last time i tried to do it it just worked. Today i can only get one label top left. I have done this before without thinking about it. What has happened since my recent system reinstall.
This is actually quite urgent as i will look a fool by the end of the week if i cant get these labels run off.
Please help
Jonesey

Hi:
Create a new group and put your card in the group. Then duplicate your card with Cmd-C and Cmd-V to copy and paste. Make enough copies of your card to fill a sheet of labels, then print the group.

Automating Envelopes using Address Book

I have created a template in Pages 09 for an envelope. When I want to create an envelope I have to open Pages, open Address Book, drag an address book label over to the envelope and then print. Seems like I should be able to script Address Book so that I can just select one or more addresses and then select the script and it will make and print the envelope.
Anyone know of any script like that?

Here is a script which was posted by
Michael Ghilissen
Objet : AddressBook / TextEdit contact printout
Date : 1 décembre 2008 14:53:38 HNEC
At : [email protected]
tell application "Address Book"
set thePerson to get selection as list
repeat with i from 1 to count thePerson
set theFirstname to ""
set theLastname to ""
set theJobtitle to ""
set theOrganization to ""
set theEmails to {}
set thePhones to {}
set theURLS to {}
set theAddresses to {}
set theFirstname to (first name of item i of thePerson)
set theLastname to (last name of item i of thePerson)
set theJobtitle to (job title of item i of thePerson)
set theOrganization to (organization of item i of thePerson)
repeat with theRef in (get every email of item i of thePerson)
set end of theEmails to {label, value} of theRef
end repeat
repeat with theRef in (get every phone of item i of thePerson)
set end of thePhones to {label, value} of theRef
end repeat
repeat with theRef in (get every url of item i of thePerson)
set end of theURLS to {label, value} of theRef
end repeat
repeat with theRef in (get every address of item i of thePerson)
set end of theAddresses to {label, street, city, state, zip, country} of theRef
end repeat
set theNote to (note of item i of thePerson)
-- convert list to text
set old_delim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set theEmails to theEmails as text
set thePhones to thePhones as text
set theURLS to theURLS as text
set theAddresses to theAddresses as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to old_delim
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
set E to make new document at end of documents with properties {name:"AB Contact"}
tell E
set its text to ("AddressBook Contact" & return & return & return & ¬
"Name " & theFirstname & " " & theLastname & return & ¬
"Company " & theOrganization & return & return & ¬
"Address " & theAddresses & return & return & ¬
"Website " & theURLS & return & ¬
"Email " & theEmails & return & return & ¬
"Phone " & thePhones & return & return & ¬
"Note " & theNote & return) as text
repeat with k in {"Name", "Company", "Address", "Website", "Email", "Phone", "Note"}
set (the color of every word where it is k) to {38000, 38000, 38000}
end repeat
set (the word of every word where it is "missing") to ""
set (the word of every word where it is "value") to ""
set the font to "Helvetica"
set the size to 14
set the font of paragraph 1 to "Helvetica Bold"
repeat with l in {"work", "home", "main", "fax", "mobile"}
set (the font of every word where it is l) to "Helvetica Italic"
end repeat
end tell
print document "AB Contact"
close document "AB Contact" saving no
end tell
end repeat
end tell
Have fun
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 18 février 2009 16:57:49)

How do you control layouts of label printing from address book / contacts

Has anyone found a smart way or some smart software to help me with this ?
I want to select a subset of my contacts in address book and give the group a name, like "Xmas cards". As I add new contacts I want to occasionally add some of them to this sub group.
Then at Xmas I want to print off the postal addresses of the contacts in this sub group onto standard Avery labels to use on my Xmas card envelopes.
I know there is a way of printing from address book to labels, but I don't seem to have any control on the label font, font size or layout.
Ideally I would like to use a currently unused field in address book to store the way I would like the first line of the contact to print such as " Mr and Mrs Smith" or "John Smith and Jane Doe" - which may be different from the way record the "name" field. So I need flexibility of choosing which fields to print in which order on the labels
Does anyone else do something like this and how? Do you use some third party software to help manage it?

Hi jhrichmond,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
You might be able to do something with the Company field from the Print menu.
Address Book 6.x: Print contact information
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph4683
Cheers,
- Judy

How can I make Address Book print labels how I want, or export to Word?

I have found a number of serious problems with Address Book, which unless I can overcome them mean it is entirely useless for me. Almost all are to do with creating mailing labels or envelopes:
1.I can't find any way of defining a sheet format for labels different from those on the pre-defined list. My labels are in 2 columns of 8, on a sheet 12” long by 8” wide, margins 0.5mm top and bottom, and ½” left and right. The labels themselves are 3½” x1½”. Address Book can't do it. It is odd that this is so restrictive, whereas with envelopes one has total flexibility.
2.Although I can define which address I want to print on each label or envelope, I can't find a way of defining which field should be used for the first (name) line. It always consists of the First and Last names as recorded on each card. This is not what I want. For different mailings, I want to use different first lines, as in many cases each card is the address of a family group, the First and Last names simply recording the names of the parents e.g., John and Mary Smith. But for my Christmas mailing I want to print 'The Smith Family', whereas for my charity mailshots I want to print 'Mrs Mary Smith', as she is the charity supporter, not her husband or children.
3.The address layout seems to be fixed, with each element on a separate line. This is not how I want to print, as in some cases it makes for too many lines, particularly on labels. I want to put the zip/post-code on the same line as the county or state, separated by about ½”. But I can't see how to dictate the layout at all. On labels there is a further problem, in that I can't define a vertical and/or horizontal off-set for the text.
4.The Country does not print at all on labels, making the application quite useless for foreign mailings, and I can't find a way of overcoming this. Over half our mailing addresses are affected by this.
5. And another problem really puts the final cherry on the icing of this cake: There is no way I can find of exporting the data from the address book in a format, e.g. a csv file, that I can bring into a word processor where I could do these mailings how I want them. Not only does the box fail to do what I need, it is also locked.
I don't understand why, having set up Address Book on the database principle that one should have have to record each contact only once no matter how many ways one needs to use the data, it seems it has then been implemented in a way that prevents it being used in one of the most obvious ways, to print addresses in a format of the user's choice.
The Applecare adviser tells me the problems I have can't be overcome. Is that right, or is she, and I missing something? Please help.

noondaywitch wrote:
"It's Christmas card time again and the fact that Address Book is useless for this purpose is really frustrating."
While I sympathise with the functionality of Address Book, I'm old-fashioned enough to write my cards and envelopes by hand (shock! horror!) and get quite p***-off to receive bulk-printed stuff.
Just a thought, peeps.
It'd be all too easy to follow that up with a cheapshot making reference to how many Christmas cards you have to send, but I'll rise above that and explain that some of us might want to use this for business contacts and have 300+ cards to address.
It is a shame that the printing feature from Address Book is so close, yet so far from performing this simple task. It is a shame that Pages can run mail merge, but only for one record per page (which is useless for label printing). It is also a shame that MS Word for Mac does proper labels but doesn't recognise Address Book as a datasource.
These things are all a shame because with Apple's software, you rather expect things to "just work", as per their advertising, and when very simple things don't "just work", it difficult not to feel cheated.

Label Printing Using Address Book - How can I Print multiple labels of the same name?

Label Printing Using Address Book - How can I Print multiple labels of the same name?

I used to be able to print multiple copies of the same picture on one page using iphoto. There was a customise button when you went through to print and it was there somewhere. I can't see it anymore - maybe since an upgrade.
It's gone. But as a work-around, duplicate your photo (⌘D) to create as many versions as you want copies and select all at once. Then use the "Custom" print layout and set the photo size you want.
After printing, trash the added versions.

Can I print Dymo labels directly from Address Book?

That would be cool. But I end up launching Dymo's crap app and cutting and pasting every address into a label I want to print.

I agree with the previous posts that Dymo's Label Software is satisfactory when you choose to use Apple's Address Book app. However, I frequently want to print a single label from Address Book, and I don't like to waste time launching Dymo's app and scrolling (no search function!) through my addresses.
Here's the solution I have used to print a single address label from Address Book (v. 3.1.2) to my LabelWriter Twin Turbo:
(1) With the address selected in Address Book, got to File > Print ...
(2) Choose "Dymo Labelwriter" from the Printer drop-down menu
(3) Under the "Layout" tab (not "List"), be sure "Dymo" & "Shipping Labels" is selected from the Page drop-down. (It seems counter-intuitive to select shipping labels when you're printing address labels, but it's the only workaround I've found, and you'll modify the margins in step #4.)
(4) Now select "Define Custom ..." from the Page drop-down menu and give it a new name (e.g. "Dymo Address") (+At this point, the label preview on the left should look like a big shipping label still+.)
(5) Modify the margins of your custom page layout (in inches) to Top=1.200 Bottom=0.000 Left=0.500 Right=0.250
(6) Print a sample copy and adjust margins to suit your needs
If you wonder why this circuitous route works, +so do I+. If you don't want to read my proposed explanation, simply follow the steps above and stop reading. If you'd like to know what I think is happening, feel free to read on:
As best I can discern, Address Book is sending the print job to the Labelwriter, assuming the label spool is *centered on the spindle*. As you know, that's not the case. However, when you tell Address Book you're printing on a large shipping label, which takes up most of the spindle anyway, you can then adjust the margins (esp. the top margin) to print only on the "bottom half" of the shipping label. That means you've defined margins suitable to print on the actual address labels installed on the left side of the spindle.
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