Can we set address book to always show groups?

May seem trivial to some, but the new Address Book drives me crazy. I do not want to only see one page at a time and loved being able to see one column on the left side with all the groups, the next with all the contacts, the next on the right with the specific contacts you highlighted.
Is there any way in this new "book" (which I hate) that we can see the groups on the side????? It is completely annoying to have to go mouse up and choose Groups and then poke back and forth....
Before I could see at a glance who was in what group, etc.
Thanks!

The way you describe it is the way it works for me when I select Groups under the View menu; I get the list of groups on the left, then the list of people in the group when I select a group, then the individual person's card.
What exactly are you seeing?

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Has the Address Book software changed? Or has Mail changed? For purposes of email, Address Book no longer allows me to find an addressee or several addressees who are members of one of my Groups (or Smart Groups). What happens is this: I open Mail, initiate a new email, put the cursor in the To: box and click the 'Show addresses' icon in the New Message box. The Addresses list shows up in a separate window with an alphabetized listing of all my contacts. It used to allow me to select a Group, but Groups are no longer listed. I have no choice but to select an address (or addresses) from the entire list. Needless to say, this is intolerable.
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https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
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The neat thing to do would be to copy the profile from the XP machine to the W8 machine. This would have transferred your messages, your account settings and your Address Book and much else.
Given that you have set up Thunderbird and have started using it, copying over the profile may not now be terribly attractive for you.
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