Address Book View

Perhaps this has been covered before but since no changes have been made I'll try again. The address book seems rather primitive in its inability to view addresses as business cards. A business card view (not just one at a time) would greatly enhance the application allowing you to see at a glance, all of your contacts in business card style instead of tightly packed together in a list which unless you use a very large font, is hard to see. Those of us with poor eyesight would appreciate such a view. Can Apple improve the functionality of Address book with this type of view?

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I imported my Outlook contacts into AB via .txt file. Now all of the address cards that I have just imported have bithdays and anniversaries with the same date. These fields do not appear on my template in preferences. Is there a way to delete these 2 fields on all of my cards?
Thanks

Hi Rob,
What I meant to post was:
set HitDate to (date "Sunday, November 21, 1999 00:00:00") + 12 * hours
tell application "Address Book"
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repeat with thisPerson in people
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repeat with thisDate in (custom dates of thisPerson)
-- Take action
if value of thisDate is equal to HitDate then
delete thisDate
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
This doesn't work (the items are not deleted), but doesn't error.
It seems to me to be a bug in Address Book.
John M

Can Address book view/display personal "shared contacts" from Exchange?

It seems not to, but I'm curious if I'm missing something.
If I add my Exchange account to Address Book, I can search the GAL. That works fine.
But I do not see any "shared contacts" from individual users who (in Outlook on Windows) allow me to see their personal Contacts list.
Is this feature just not there?
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I am trying to figure this out too.
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How can I get the address book to sort by "Last" name (using v 31.3.0).

After a computer crash, I had to load Thunderbird (v31.3.0) back into my machine running Windows 8.1, and I successfully imported my address book back up file into Thunderbird (v31.3.0).
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Select address book
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If reversed, then click on 'Name' column header again to reverse the order.
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Adding address to email address book

Is there a way to add email addresses:
1. From a previous address book in another mail program (Netscape)?
2. Without having to actually send an email to someone...or receive an email from them?
When I enter a name/email address into the BCC field, the recipients in the BCC field don't appear on _my own_ sent emails, so I can't add that email address to my address book because I can't SEE it! Mail is very limited in that respect. You apparently have to enter their email address in the TO or CC fields, and not in the BCC field, to be able to click on them and add them to your address book.
Is there _any other way_ to add them to my address book when the email I sent them has them listed in the BCC field? I don't want to list a bunch of people in CC or TO fields just so they will appear on the sent email for me to be able to click on their email address to add them to my address book. That's why I use the BCC field for a list of recipients. It's MY email anyway. Why can't I see them in the BCC field on _my own_ sent emails? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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You need to understand that Address Book is a separate application; in Mail you can view and use the information maintained by the AB app. If you have an email address that you need to type in and will want to re-use, open AB and click the + at the bottom of the columns of names; you will get a blank contact card on which to type in details. If now in Mail you start a new message and start typing the new email or name the auto-fill feature will pull it from AB. From AB, if you click the label beside someone's email address the popup menu will include the option of sending them an email. Alternatively drag the icon for the contact card and drop it on the Mail icon in the dock. Or use the address book viewing features in Mail - you are spoilt for choice.
As for Netscape, if there is any sort of address book export facility it should be possible to do an import into OS X Address Book. Best is if Netscape supports the vCard format.
AK

TS3276 Mail - address book

Is there a way to send an e-mail to "all" in the contacts list without inputting each individual address.

Or simply drag and drop.
First open Mail, and create a new blank message.
Then open Address Book, View > Groups. On the left, scroll up to the top, and choose "All Contacts". On the right, select a contact, and then Edit > Select All. Then drag all of these contacts into the "To:" field (or CC, or better yet, BCC) in the blank email. (BCC will relieve your recipients the burden of looking at the email address of every one else you're sending to and exposing the entire contents of your address book to each one of your recipients.) In Mail, see View > BCC address field.
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Address book display?

I just updated to 4.5 on my 8310, ATT. Now my address book shows up as two lines instead of one. I prefer the single line. Can't find a way to get back to that. TIA.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

That is the new address book view on OS 4.5... a new feature
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Contacts added are not showing up on address book.

I created new contact entries using certain apps, such as SimplyTweet, which did not appear on my Address Book. However, doing a spotlight search on my phone shows those entries exist, but cannot be edited. Anybody else having a similar issue?

Hello everyone!
For all of you out there who have received phone calls, text messages, etc, and have tried adding a contact by means other than directly via the contacts app only to have your contact not show up ANYWHERE (except maybe in a spotlight search), this quick troubleshooting guide is for you.
Disclaimers: This can be performed on an Apple computer, I do not troubleshoot for PC's (however, anyone who knows their way around computers can easily modify the steps for a PC). This method can also be used if you sync your contacts via MobileMe like I do, and should work for the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4. I have the latest OS on my iPhone, but it should work with any recent OS. My iTunes has been updated to the most recent version.
Step 1: Open Address Book on your mac. Make sure your address book view is extended to show your groups in the left column. Under groups, everyone will have a group labeled "All Contacts". If that's the only group you have, it's time to create another one. Click the "+" at the bottom of your group column and name your new group whatever you want. For my purposes (as this was an iPhone issue), I named my new group "iPhone Contacts". Do not add any contacts from "All Contacts" to your new group, as this will be unnecessarily redundant. Close Address Book, you're done with it.
Step 2: Open iTunes and plug in your iPhone. Hopefully you have your settings to manually sync when you plug your iPhone into iTunes, otherwise wait until it's synced to continue. Click the "Info" tab in iTunes. The first option is Sync Address Book Contacts. Make sure this option is checked. Under the first subheading, make sure "All contacts" is checked. Below the groups box, there will be a line that says "Add contacts created outside of groups on this iPhone to:" and make sure this is checked as well. (Bonus info- Unless you created a contact directly via the contacts app on your iPhone, that contact ends up in another list. This is why you can't see it right now.) At this moment is where that new contact group you created in Address Book comes into play. Use the drop-down menu to the right of this option to select that group (remember mine was "iPhone Contacts"). Do not change anything else. Now click "Sync" in the bottom right corner of iTunes.
Step 3: Once your iPhone is synced, open the Contacts app on your iPhone. If it opens to a contact list, tap the "Groups" button in the upper left corner of the screen. You should see two or three sections. The top section will simply be "All Contacts". The second section will be titled "From My Mac" and will display both "All from My Mac" and the new group you created in Address Book. If you use MobileMe, you will have a third section titled "[email protected]", under which your MobileMe contact group will fall. Make sure you tap the top group, "All Contacts". You will find those "missing" contacts now listed among all your other ones.
Bonus: If you find you have duplicate contact names but neither contact has a full information card, you can edit the contact, scroll to the bottom and tap the "Link contacts" button, then link your duplicates to insure you have all the info you want.
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Importing address book problem

Hi, hope someone can help.
I'm trying to import an address book from a Virgin pay as you go SIM into a Blackberry Pearl 8110. I can see the address book when I view the 'SIM address book' option and can dial out from here and the view is very basic not the normal BB address book view. But I can't SMS from this SIM address book.
I've used the wizard to try and import the contacts into the BB address book but it just imports the contact names but not the numbers. If I try and select oneof these names nothing happens, its like the address book has frozen. I also cannot open the menu option when in address book either unless I delete all the individual names that have been imported, then I can select the menu option.
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I've just unlatched the BB so I can use it as a phone using Virgin PAYG credit I have.
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List view in Address Book

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In Address Book, any way to Show/Hide groups from view in the "ALL" view?

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Hi Mike, My Address Book app is behaving correctly (maybe I'm not).
I'm just saying there are times when I want to see "most" of my total collection of contacts, maybe just for the purpose of creating new groups at particular time and want to see at one time the pool of contacts I have to choose from. There are groups that I very seldom need to use, so it would be a way of putting those groups (and their contacts) into "cold storage."
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Scott

View Duplicate Entries in Address Book

Does anyone know how you can view your duplicate entries in Address Book before you merge them?
Thank you!

books06,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
It depends upon which version of Address Book you are using, and your definition of "view."
1. Address Book 3.1.1 Help
2. Address Book 4.0.3 Help: Combining duplicate cards and information
To find and merge duplicate cards:
1. Choose Card > "Look for Duplicate Entries."
2. Address Book tells you if it finds duplicate cards, cards containing duplicated information, or both.
3. Click Merge to merge duplicate cards and remove redundant information on cards.
When Address Book merges duplicate cards, it creates a single card for the contact containing all of the unique information from each merged card. Address Book uses the picture from the merged card appearing first in the list.
To merge selected cards only, Command-click to select the cards you want to combine and choose Card > Merge Selected Cards. Address Book creates a single card using the name and picture of the selected card appearing first in the list.;~)

In address book on BB i don't view contacts in a group of contacts

I've this problem:
In my address book on the BB, i don't view contacts in a group of contacts.
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I tried to use it, but this NEW look of Address Book in LION is just a worthless pile of junk!
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This new 2 column view is full of new extra mouse clicks.
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