Deleting custom labels from Address Book (& iPhone !)

Not sure if this has been covered, but I've got a lot of extrraneous custom labels created in Address Book.
Does anyone know how to remove the ones not wanted any longer ? Just that the list gets longer and longer each time !
Shame Apple didn't think to have all labels done with the first letter capitalised - looks much better that way.

I also migrated from a Treo to an iPhone, and was hoping to have custom field information transfer from my desktop to my iPhone. It would be rather handy when I need help remembering the name of someone's spouse, etc. Has someone created an iPhone app for this perhaps?

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Problem Adding Custom Labels to Address Book

I add custom labels to the Template in Address Book Preferences. There's no problem at this stage, the custom labels appear along with the preset labels in the Template. But when I leave Preferences, go back to Address Book and add a new card, the custom labels disappear.
What am I doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated. And thank you in advance.

Barney-15E: Thanks for your previous reply!
Would you check this work-around for me? I think I found a way to compose a master list of custom labels and have them available for multiple cards (new and old) in Address Book on a MacBookPro and in the Contacts directory on an iPhone. I have tried compiling a master list of custom labels using Address Book Preferences/Template and I find there's a limit to the number of custom labels I can add as a label for each field.
Here's my workaround.
1) Go to the iPhone Contacts directory.
2) Add a new card.
2) Enter data in these fields: address, date, email, and phone. The standard label will appear on the screen below the data.
3) Tap the standard label and you will go to a screen with 2 windows. The top window has the standard or preset labels for that field but below it in a second window is a button "Add Custom Label". Tap on this button and you will be able to add the text for a Custom Label for each of these fields. This will then become a master list of Custom Labels that can be used in most labels in the iPhone Contacts Directory.
4) If you have your IPhone set up to synch with your MacBookPro or iMac, the entry in the iPhone Contacts directory will be transferred to your other Mac, with the Custom Labels.
Barney - 15E: Can you find a glitch??? To me it seems to make a master list of custom labels available for all card, new and old. The only problem is that the input has to be done on the iPhone.

Printing Mailing Labels from Address Book

Stupid question, but one that is driving me crazy.
How do you print a sheet of mailing labels from Address Book but when the entire sheet of labels is the SAME label?
I can print labels successfully in address book, can select the label type and number, etc.
However, when I select a single contact, I can't find a way to print up an entire sheet of labels (e.g. 14) of all the same contact - it only prints one label of the single contact.
Please help! I know it must be a simple fix but can't find it anywhere to select as an option.

OK, weird that this morning (one day after you posted this question) I had the same question. I just want to print some return address labels for my own company. While I haven't been able to find a software based way to do it, I did think up a workable (if a bit ridiculous) hack. Copy the address you want to fill the sheet of labels with however many times there are labels on the sheet and select those however many copies and click print! I created 30 copies of my own company's address in Address Book, selected them, and printed a sheet of labels without problem. A bit dumb, but it works!
Hope that helps.

Printing labels from Address Book

Hi there,
I have tried to print labels from Address Book using the provided template within the application.
The probem however, is that if I want to print a number of labels, say for myself, I can not seem to specify how may labels to print with a selected address.
As well, if I print one label from the application, I do not see a way to tell the printer or the application to use the next field of the label sheets.
Am I missing something completly obvious or is it an oversight in the Application?
Thanks in advance

Jim,
I think I understand your question. Hopefully this will help you with at least one of your problems. In order to print out address labels for just your name and address, you'll have to duplicate your personal address card several times. I duplicated mine 29 more times so that I could print out 30 sticky labels. Here's what I'd suggest:
1. Create a new group in the far left side of your Address Book window by clicking once on the "+" button found at the bottom of the Group column, and then title your new group something like "My Return Labels."
2. Locate your main personal card in the "All" group, and then slide it (or add it) to your newly created group.
3. Highlight your card from within your new "My Return Labels" group, copy and paste it about 29 times.
4. Once done, make sure you have just your "My Return Labels" group highlighted, then go to your Print command.
5. Choose the proper label style, and print away.
Good luck, Grampa Doodie.
PBG4-15 1.67GHZ, eMac, G4 Tower, iMac (Graphite), iMac (BB). Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I accidently deleted a group from Address Book. Is there any way to retrieve it?

I accidentally deleted a group from Address Book. Is there any way to retrieve it?

Not unless you have a back up. Time Machine??

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Truncated custom labels in Address Book problem

When I create a custom label for telephone numbers in Address Book, for eg I change "mobile" to "work mobile", only the first eight or nine characters of this are displayed. The remainder of the label is truncated to ... regardless of the size of the window.
With acres of empty white space to the right of the telephone number, it would be nice to be able to see the entire label. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Dave.

Thank you for your reply. But I do want to clarify. I am not trying to sync Address Book Groups, but rather custom-named fields from Address Book. The computer program allows you to give your own name to any of the fields on a contact's card. In the example I gave, the single contact card named "GoDaddy" has three custom labels, one for each of the contact people within the company. Something like this:
GoDaddy
Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Rather than using the standard "mobile", "fax", "home" labels, I've assigned my own values. I'm wondering (and now with significant doubts) if the blackberry will automatically sync those entries.
Soon I will be able to test it myself, but as of now I still do not have access to a blackberry to test this...

Custom Labels in Address Book

I've been following the news about Blackberry Desktop for the mac, but I will not have the opportunity to try it for myself until another 2 weeks, so I hope that the community here will be able to provide the answer to some of the questions that I have not seen answered here yet.
In the Apple Address Book I use custom labels to designate the names of particular contact people within an organization. For instance, on my contact card for GoDaddy support I have three phone numbers, each with a custom label of the contact person's name.
Has anybody used custom labels in their sync? Is the Blackberry then able to recognize the labels properly?

Thank you for your reply. But I do want to clarify. I am not trying to sync Address Book Groups, but rather custom-named fields from Address Book. The computer program allows you to give your own name to any of the fields on a contact's card. In the example I gave, the single contact card named "GoDaddy" has three custom labels, one for each of the contact people within the company. Something like this:
GoDaddy
Tim - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Ryan - xxx-xxx-xxxx
James - xxx-xxx-xxxx
Main: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Rather than using the standard "mobile", "fax", "home" labels, I've assigned my own values. I'm wondering (and now with significant doubts) if the blackberry will automatically sync those entries.
Soon I will be able to test it myself, but as of now I still do not have access to a blackberry to test this...

Any way to create labels from Address Book WHICH I CAN EDIT?

I know how to print labels direct from Address Book but I need to be able to edit the labels before printing. Anyone know how to do that?

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How to Print on either Avery 8160 or 8250 labels from Address book

Hey all,
I'm trying to do Christmas Address Labels and I have my addresses in Address Book, and I have Avery Labels 8160 or 8250 (3 rows of 10, can't tell the difference between the two).
I've created a group in Address Book that has all of the people who I want to send cards to.
I highlight all of them go to Print, then change to labels, but Address Book shows only a 2 columns of 12. How do I change this to 3 columns of 10?
If I can't do this from address book. I do have the new version of MS Office for Mac, but It's label wizard isn't very easy to use, I either get a whole bunch of junk, or one sheet of the same address.
Any help would be nice since Christmas is the end of the week.
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If I only looked a bit further. There is a "layout" option once you open up the print dialogue. Thats where you select the correct type of avery label.

Custom fields from Address Book on desktop don't sync to iPhone

I recently switched from a Palm Treo to iPhone. The sync wasn't seamless so I am editing contact info one at a time. I noticed that when I add custom fields to a card in Address Book they don't sync to my contacts in iPhone...why?
For example, I've created fields for the names of children but when I view the contact on my phone I only get the contacts Bday, Anniv and Notes section. Very frustrating since I'm spending time filling all of this info in. Can anyone help? Thanks!!

I also migrated from a Treo to an iPhone, and was hoping to have custom field information transfer from my desktop to my iPhone. It would be rather handy when I need help remembering the name of someone's spouse, etc. Has someone created an iPhone app for this perhaps?

Order of custom labels on Address Book

When I edit custom labels on telephone field, in a new Card, and save it, the order of custom labels changes everytime I entry in Address Book's Card, apparently in random order.
Can someone help me?

same problem here. I even trashed my cache and prefs for Address Book, re-opened the application and set up the custom template from scratch. Alas, the order of fields seems completely random once a filled-out card is displayed. Trashing the prefs seemed to help from the standpoint that I can now go in and (very tediously) cut/paste info from the fields (and change the labels accordingly) and it seems to stay in that order once saved. Annoying problem…
Update: Well, it seems that the order is not retained once closing and re-opening the Address Book application. Each time it re-opens, the fields are in a random order. The order of the fields in MobileMe seem slightly more stable, but not completely. Very strange.
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Referencing and hopfully deleting custom dates in Address Book?

I'm really struggling with this as a AS newbie.
I want to delete all custom date values from selected Address Book records. I am using the following script which successfully deletes Birthdays but cannot handle custom dates such as "Anniversary".
can someone please help me out?
Thanks Paul
tell application "Address Book"
set mySelection to selection
repeat with this_person in mySelection
delete birth date of this_person
end repeat
save addressbook
end tell

Hi palouis
I think this is what your after, but according to the Applescript Engineer Chris Nebel, it appears that their is a bug, maybe follow it up to see where they are at with fixing it.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2007/Nov/msg00115.html
Budgie

Print Mailing Labels from Address Book

After following the convoluted rules for Address Book, I finally got my Leopard computer to print Mailing Labels with proper relationships displayed. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and now this is all broken again.
I read http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3952 which describes the changes made to Snow Leopard, however for anyone who already put in a lot of work to get labels working correctly for Leopard (or Tiger), this is a major set back.
Not only that, the Snow Leopard method for printing labels breaks so many other uses of Address Book. I will name a few:
iPhone:
I sync my address book with my iPhone. My buddy calls, now instead of "Bob Smith" displayed on my iPhone, I will see "Bob & Jean Smith" even though the call is from Bob's cell phone....all because I followed the new 10.6 rules to get proper labels printed by 'hacking' the first name field and changing "Bob" to "Bob & Jean".
Mail:
When I receive and email from Bob, instead of it saying "Bob Smith <[email protected]>" it will display: "Bob & Jean Smith <[email protected]>"
I'm sure there are other examples of how this change will break other apps.
Solution:
Apple should add a Print option to Address Book with a backwards compatibility checkbox that will include relationships with matching addresses to support 10.4 - 10.5.8 address book printing usage.
If you agree that Apple should add this Print option to add back support for relationship printing, add your voice to this thread, as well as post a bug report to Apple with similar contents.

A vote here for a checkbox in preferences to "include related names," allowing for 10.5 style behavior.

ICloud Deleted Local Contacts From Address Book

Okay, so I tried setting up an iCloud account so a family member could receive texts and messages via iChat. That was the original goal. I successfully set up an account, but iChat does not allow me to login via the iCloud account that I had set up. After sever attempts I decided to put that on the back burner until I had a little more time to look into it. In doing so I seem to have caused some other collateral damage which I didn't anticipate (see below).
Unfortunately, as I logged out of iCloud on the iMac, it wiped/deleted every last contact that was in the address book. My question is: How can I get them back?
I suspect that there is a "previous" or "prior" image of the data what was there. I'm guessing that Apple put some type of safeguard in place for just such an occurrance, though I could be wrong.
The Machine is a 2011 27" iMac running 10.7.5. The last backup of the address book that I can get to is from 2011. Actually it's the Address Book Folder in users>Library>Applications Support. I made a copy of the entire system drive AFTER everything was migrated over from the old system that was replaced, and have it on an external drive.
Some notes:
- Time Machine was not active or on
- iCloud was never activated until just recently
- the person does not own an iDevice with any of the contacts
- iCloud does not seem to show any contacts to even bring back onto the iMac
It seems like a really silly thing to have any local data removed AT ALL upon signing out of iCloud. What's on the machine should remain on the machine unless the enduser literally goes out of there way to purposly delete the information stored there. There should be no dialog box what so ever even indicating that data will be removed, and even if the data was removed there should be an easy way to undo the action in case the enuser misinterpreted the action. Before any of the data is removed from the local the information (or at least a copy of it) should have been automatically stored to the cloudspace PRIOR. Why on earth would Apple set it up in such a way where the default is to delete any local data at all?

No. Absolutely not. We'll just have to agree to disagree. iCloud should be able to be turned on or off on any given device associated with said account. Local stores should be synchronized and that synchronization should happen continuously if connected. When not connected, local stores should maintain their state. What would be the purpose of even bothering to "sync". Or are you saying that in effect everything is copied to a central location (ie the cloud) and any devices wanting access to that data need to be "signed in", and in effect becoming nul terminals with no local store? Why should the default assume users would want to delete the synchronized data upon sign out? iCloud should be a "use as needed" tool and not an "either/or" tool. In this case *it* should have backed the data up to begin with. That is the purpose after all. I (wrongfully) assumed in haste that the information was backed up or copied elsewhere and that even if I chose to delete it from the local device, I would still have access to it because it was stored "somewhere". And if the data wasn't synced/backed up to "the cloud" upon sign-in, then a friendly reminder alerting the user that now data had yet been saved would certainly go a long way. But this derails the entire thread. All I want to know is whether or not there is a way to retrieve the data that was erased from the iMac?

Deleting custom labels from Address Book (& iPhone !)

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