File Address Book cards in alphabetical order

Can anyone tell me how to get my entries in Address Book to display in alphabetical order? Thanks!

Open Address Book's preferences and click on the General icon in the toolbar. Set your desired sort preferences in the dialog.

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Whenever I "drag and drop" an Address Book card onto a Pages address field, it hangs for almost a minute before the address appears. I don't believe this is normal, does anyone else have this problem?

Sounds like you "upgraded" to Pages 5.
Apple has removed over 90 features from Pages 5.
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=3527487677f0c 6fa05b6297cd00f8eb9&mforum=iworktipsntrick
Pages '09 should still be in your Applications/iWork folder.
Archive/trash Pages 5, after Exporting your files to Pages '09, and rate/review it in the App Store, then get back to work.
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Merge Address Book Cards Greyed out

Hi all,
I've got an envelope that I use every once in a while. It has a logo and return address. For the recipient address, I just go to address book, change the information in the group that I call "current envelope" then I go to pages, merge and print.
However, last time I went to do this, it added the address that I wanted from the group, plus 3 other addresses (i don't know where they came from.) When I try to merge again with the address book to refresh the data, the Merge Address Book Cards option is grey. What is going on?
Thanks for any help.

Hi Osvaldo
I can just confirm I had it once too. I just restarted. That solved it. But I always tought that is a Win solution If I can reproduce it I try to search why it happened.
But I have an other problem with mail merge:
If I merge more then 1 address it asks me if it shall put it in a new document. If it does so it removes all the empty fields. If you merge only 1 address it merges it always in the curent document and the empty fields stay. That still would be ok but they also print with the field name on the letters. Looks like a bug to me.
Sure I could remove the fields manually... but hey? Either it should give the possibility to merge it into a new document even with 1 address and remove the empty fields or keep it in the same document with the empty fields but shouldn't print them.
I think this are the small thing they will need to sort out over time (like that there is no possiblity to choose from "recent documents" in the open/create file wizard - if you close the wizard it closes Pages too. Or that after opening Pages without the wizard and choosin from the recent documents the blank document created automatically with the start up is not closed automatically if it wasn't edit before an other file was opened (yes , even MS has some smart tricks)).
Cheers
Petr

Old Address Book Cards into New Address Book

Okay, so here's the problem:
I had the first IMac with the Isight camera and the CPU died. So, I had the data backed up to an external hard drive.
So now I have the new Imac and I still have the external hard drive and I've put MOST of my old data on the new computer...but I can't import my old address book cards. . And I need some of them!
Can anyone help?

Address Book data is stored in
Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
Copy all the files in the AddressBook folder from your backup into your new iMac
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Can MULTIPLE birthdays on Address Book card show up in iCal?

iCal 2.0.3 - I have a number of cards in my Address Book that list primary party, spouse and several children. I have created in Address Book on a single card a birthday field for EACH of the parties on an Address Book card. However, only the primary party's birthday automatically is transferred to the Birthday calendar in iCal.
The only way I have been able to have all the birthdays shown in iCal is to have a separate Address Book card for each member of the family. Obviously, this bloats the Address Book.
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While you can't list multiple birthdays for multiple members of a family on a single card in Address Book and have them automatically added to the Birthday calendar in iCal, you can by using Dates to iCal donationware manually insert birthdays into the iCal Birthday calendar (http://www.nhoj.co.uk/)
This is great in that it keeps you from having to bloat your Address Book by unnecessarily creating a separate card for each additional member of a family, e.g.

I'm attempting to transfer files, address book, etc from an external hard drive to my new Mac-mini using migration assistant. The external drive is showing up on my desktop but Migration Assistant is not seeing the drive when searching for devices

I'm attempting to migrate files, address book, maile, etc to my new Mac Mini using an external hard drive and Migration assistant. I followed the instructions on using Migration Assistant to do this but Migration Assistant is not seeing the external drive, which is displayed on my desktop

I've been chasing this problem all afternoon. I had to reformat my internal drive on my MBP and reinstall Mountain Lion Start up assistant wouldn't see my extrnal drive with the Time Machine files on it. After many tries, I skipped the restore there and let the system boot. I could see my external drive from Finder and the files looked OK. I was told to use Migration Assistant and it had the same problem.
I saw a hint on one of these posts that the icon that you see and is label Macintosh HD is actually your backup disk and it is telling you that it has a copy of your internal Macintosh HD. I went ahead and told it to continue and it started to restore my apps, settings, and documents. It's been going for a couple of hours, and is close to being done. I expect to see my old system restored when it is finished.
Wish that Apple would put some type of note that it is seeing the backup. That is most confusing and seems to be a problem for lots of users.
It's been a month or so since your post Did your get it to work?

"Address book card merge" in Pages '13

Has "address book card merge" been removed from Pages '13 features?

You can use the Contacts just like you could use the Address book for creating envelopes or labels.
Select the contacts you want to send to > Cmd + P for printing > Set which envelope you want to use. Print

Can I send all address book cards to iCloud?

Can I send address book cards to I cloud?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Yes, unless there are some that you don't want on all your devices.

ICal can't see my Address Book card...

When I try to set an email alert to myself iCal tells me:
You must add your own card and email address in Address Book to be able to use mail alarms.
I have an Address Book card with my name on it and my email address. Is there some "offical" designation I need to set for it so that my Mac knows it's my card? Or is there an iCal setting that designates it as such?

I had the same issue. My iCal, Address Book and Mail all worked happily together until I migrated to a new MacBook Pro. Everything was working well until I tried to send an invitation from iCal to other users and I got the same message you did. I was irritated because I DID have a card that was identified as "my" card. But here was the catch: I use Entourage as my preferred email client and use "Mail" only when iCal sends an invitation to an event. Once I set up "Mail" on the new computer, iCal recognized my card and sent the invitation.

Sending Address Book cards to a Nextel i880

I've got a Motorola Nextel i880 phone that I'm trying to send Address Book cards to. My Mac can see and connect to the phone over Bluetooth, but the phone doesn't seem to want to talk to my Mac. I've tried using iSync, but apparently Apple doesn't support the i880 yet.
If you have any suggestions, thanks in advance for the help.
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Pages merges address book cards, but in what kind of order?

This is crazy! If I open an envelope template and merge an Address Book group to a new document the order of the names is completely random. It is not in alphabetical order or any kind of order at all.
What gives?
If I go back through the envelopes to make sure they all printed correctly I have to sort them manually to see if any are missing.

You need to buy the RAM in MATCHING sets - so you'll need 2 sticks of 4GB RAM. MacBook Pros prefer that both slots are populated with MATCHED pairs.
See the Crucial website and click on the System Scanner to get the correct RAM upgrades for your computer. You do know that you can upgrade to 16GB?
Clinton

All Address Book cards missing

Came in to work and started my Mac and went to send an email to a staff member and their email address didn't pop up after the first three letters?
Went to check Address Book and all cards are missing! I've been reading other posts and the difference for me was that I wasn't doing anything like transferring files or-the-like; very weird.
Only OS thing I did the day before was to set it to log out when in active for 70mins. Otherwise no change??
I did download Address Book restore files from my iDisk using BackUp and downloaded a file: AddressBook.data, but Address Book won't import or read this file so I can't restore my cards.
Please help, as you can appreciate loosing all contacts is very serious. With thanks. W

The information given in the thread *Manually transfer Address Book* should help sort this for you

ADDRESS BOOK: Contacts listing/viewing order

ever since i synched my iphone my contacts on my iMac list correctly by last name. but now, some contacts are Last, First, and others are First, Last.
anyone else experience this?
i would prefer all to be First, Last.

Try selecting all of your contacts, then open Address Book's card menu. I don't have Tiger in front of me at the moment, but I think the menu item you need is called Reset First/Last Name to Default.
There's an application-wide preference in the general pref pane for the name display order. And there's a per-card setting for this as well, which would override the application-wide preference. The menu items in the Card menu can change this setting on a per-card basis.

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I am running 10.5.6 on a MacBook and connecting to a 10.5.6 server. If I search the LDAP directory in Address Book and add a found card to my Address Book, it should update automatically with any changes - the box is ticked in the LDAP Preferences in Address Book.
The thing is, updates are not happening. I can connect to the server and searches come up with the information I want, but cards previously dragged to the Address Book from an earlier search never get updated.
Any ideas, anyone?

Hi,
If a new OAB is set as default, please check whether the OAB folder in the following path is the latest date in Exchange sever:
a. OAB generated in Mailbox:
\\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\ ExchangeOAB
b. OAB distribution in Client Access:
\\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\ClientAccess\OAB
If the OAB file is not generated, please collect any event logs in Mailbox server and provide your OAB virtual directory information for more troubleshooting. If the files in both of two folders are latest,
we can try the following steps in Outlook to download Offline Address Book:
1. Delete the *.oab files in the following folders in local machine:
\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Offline Address Books
2. Create a new Outlook profile that uses Cached Exchange Mode.
3. Start Outlook 2010 with this new profile.
4. In the ribbon click Send / Receive, click
Send/Receive Groups and then click Download Address Book.
For more information about OAB downloading and updating, please refer to Q5 to Q20 in:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841273/en-us
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HT2486 No edit button on address book card

There is no edit button & EDIT>EDIT CARD is grayed out. How do I edit a card?

I had that problem.
The solution was to rebuild the Address Book's database file.
To do that in Lion -
• Quit Address Book if it is running.
• While in Finder, press and hold the Option key and open the Go menu (main menubar). A new item, "Library", will be shown. Select it. This will open the hidden Libtaty folder in the user home folder.
• In the Library folder, locate and open the Application Support folder.
• In that folder, locate and open the Address Book folder.
In the Address Book folder, locate the file named AddressBook-v22.abcddb and drag it into the Trash.
• Restart Address Book (occasionaly it may be necessary to restart the machine).

File Address Book cards in alphabetical order

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