Easy newbie question re; Address Book

I am trying to add a keyword in the Note field of each person to whom I want to send a Xmas card. I hit "edit" and then I cannot use my mouse to go immediately to the "note" field. It stays in the "first name" field unless I use the tab key to go down one-by-one.
How to quickly access the "note" field?
Thanks in advance for any help with this! (I bet this one has a "duh" type answer.)
edited: I was clicking on the word "note" instead of inside the empty area. Sorry for the stupidity of the question. Duh!
Message was edited by: MarieBoyer

Hi Marie,
why not create a group in Address Book (hit the '+' symbol in the bottom left hand corner)? Call it 'Christmas cards' and then drag the applicable contacts into this list. Don't worry as they not duplicated but just referenced from the total list of contacts. You could make 'sent' and 'received' lists if you wanted.
Seasons greetings!
Steffan

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I found this co-authored years ago by Scott Paulis and Bruce Phillips:
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set thePeople to selection
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set dialogInfo to result
set selectedButton to button returned of dialogInfo
set tagString to text returned of dialogInfo
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end repeat
end if
end tell
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Question 2: what magic is necessary to mark the record as "changed"? I say this because contact records changed with this code are not being overwritten onto my iPhone unless I manually make a change -- so clearly the A.B. UI does something "more" to close a record.
Question 3: suggestions on how to add a third option {"Remove"}?
Thanks much and Happy Holidays,
Paul

I really don't see any difference between a new line of text and a tag. So may I suggest a new version of the script:
--BEGINNING OF SCRIPT
tell application "Address Book"
set thePeople to selection
display dialog "What text would you like to remove or append?" buttons {"Cancel", "Remove", "Append"} default button "Append" default answer "The text"
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set newNote to ""
else
if last character of currentNote is in {space, return} then
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end tell
--END OF SCRIPT

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