Easy Question - Address Book

Is there a way to add the alphabet letters to the layout or at least break up the contact list by alphabet so that its easier to navigate (similar to Outlook). It would be nice to click on a letter like "M" and go directly to all of the "m"s instead of having to scroll all the way through my contacts or having to type the name in the search box. Thanks.

TC4242 wrote:
Is there a way to add the alphabet letters to the layout or at least break up the contact list by alphabet so that its easier to navigate (similar to Outlook).
No, there are no such capabilities in Address Book. But there is a search box that can be used to reduce the number of entries you have to look through. You can also make smart groups to search for some parameters quickly but I don't think you can make one for names that start with a given letter.
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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!
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Hi Guys;
I'm new to the Mac Server world and need a few questions answered.
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Hi. I'm a relatively new Mac user. My Address Book app is gone completely from my Applications folder and it has a question mark on it when I click on the icon in the taskbar. All of my contacts appear to be intact in Mail - they show up when I type addresses in emails, and I can still see the photos I assigned to contacts when these contacts send me email. But the app itself is gone from the Applications folder and I can't seem to find it no matter where I search. I've searched for Address Book under every user profile on this machine.
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>>> [email protected]<[email protected]> 7/9/2014 6:41:AM >>>
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>>> Simon Flood<[email protected]> 7/9/2014 6:02:AM >>>
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> Running Data Synchronizer 1.2.5 Build 299 against GW 8.0.2. If an
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Address Book Question -- IS THIS POSSIBLE ??

Is "appending" information possible to address book ? Or like a way to add info from one address book to another with out it deleting anything on the one getting updated OR with out making duplicates of the contact info(s) ????
Kinda like what we call a "incremintal back up". Like it is able to detect what is NEW info and ONLY save that to it while keeping all the old stuff on it.
Let me explain --
I got a tower and a laptop. Address Book (obviously) on both.
Sometimes the one on my laptop gets some contact info added to it, while the one on my tower does not get that info added to it. OR vise versa.
I want to combine the two and not lose anything and NOT have to do it manually. Because alot of info has gone down on both recently.
But at the same time they both have alot of the SAME contacts on them because for a while I was trying to keep up with them and I was manually saving info, then putting it into the other. But recently things have gotten too far and I can not remember which has what, when..
I NEED to do a incremental save/back up to one of them FROM the other one (combine the both with out causeing duplicates, or with out loseing anything).....
Please help.
Thanks -

Cool, I guess thats good enough... It will get the job done the way I want, so THANKS ALOT Mike !!
Problem solved.
I wish in the future though Apple makes it possible to do it how I was saying. Hook your laptop up via firewire to your tower, then Basically a one button click to "append only new info" from the laptops address book. No questions about what to do with duplicates, etc.... just update ALL NEW info. Don't touch old.
Thanks again though my friend, your reply was extremely valuable to me.

Three Questions on Address Book code scriplet

I found this co-authored years ago by Scott Paulis and Bruce Phillips:
tell application "Address Book"
set thePeople to selection
display dialog "What tag would you like to append?" buttons {"Cancel", "Apply"} default button "Apply" default answer "[tag]"
set dialogInfo to result
set selectedButton to button returned of dialogInfo
set tagString to text returned of dialogInfo
if selectedButton is "Apply" then
repeat with aPerson in thePeople
set currentNote to the note of aPerson
if currentNote is missing value then set currentNote to ""
set newNote to currentNote & " "
-- insert a newline here! Stringchar(13)?
set note of aPerson to newNote & tagString
end repeat
end if
end tell
Question 1: what is the syntax to accomplish the newline insertion noted above?
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,
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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"
set dialogInfo to result
set selectedButton to button returned of dialogInfo
set textString to text returned of dialogInfo
if selectedButton is "Append" then
repeat with aPerson in thePeople
set currentNote to the note of aPerson
if currentNote is missing value then set currentNote to ""
if currentNote is not "" then set currentNote to currentNote & space -- or 'return'
set newNote to currentNote & textString
set note of aPerson to newNote
end repeat
else if selectedButton is "Remove" then
repeat with aPerson in thePeople
set currentNote to the note of aPerson
if not (currentNote is missing value or currentNote is "") then
if currentNote is in {space, return} then
set newNote to ""
else
if last character of currentNote is in {space, return} then
set currentNote to text 1 through -2 of currentNote
end if
if currentNote ends with textString then
if currentNote is textString then
set newNote to ""
else
set L to length of textString
set newNote to text 1 through -(L + 1) of currentNote
end if
end if
end if
end if
set note of aPerson to newNote
end repeat
end if
save
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT

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I want to create a Smart Group in Address Book that compiles people according to their job title.
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Is there a way to make it work?
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I'm using Tiger 10.4.11.
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Hi- just wondering if someone can help on this topic before I launch into the unknown!!:
If I add an Exchange 2007 account into my Apple Address Book, will those email addresses be available when I go to send an email in Apple Mail?
and so am I right to assume that Mail looks for addresses from:
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2/ my new Exchange contacts
3/ my Previous Recipients list in Mail
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Random Address Book Question

Apologies if I've posted in the wrong forum. I am not quite sure where this question belongs.
My mother still uses the ancient Rolodex (see picture below) for her contact information. I would like to transfer this information to her computer as an early birthday present. I am hoping that some software or technique exists that can help me avoid the hours and misery of having to enter the names, addresses and numbers from each card ... there are thousands.
Ideally (and I mean that in the strongest sense of the word), I am looking for a program or service or other mechanism that would
take the information from a scan of a card (or cards)*
convert that information to text
and then either
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          OR
          (b) Magically create the cards for me. (Obviously this would be the preferred method in my idyllic computer world.)
* The only reason I mention scanning the cards is because it is the only way I know of to get the information from the paper card onto a computer. If there is another method please feel free to tell me.
While it does not show, I have attempted to ask this question in the least confusing way possible. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
A Rolodex ------------->

You would need a scanner with OCR (optical character regocnition) software. It scans the text and makes an educated guess as to what the letter is and types that into a doc for you. It works best when you are scanning typed text. If it is handwriting it will be pretty spotty getting the letters right. Either way this will be very labor intensive because you will still need to correct any mistakes you find, and it will only save the step of actually reading the cards yourself and typing them.
The other thing I can think of is when you said service. You could just hire a temp agency to have someone do it for you, paid by the hour. Or maybe a school job wanted board.
But no magic to create the cards I know of!

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