I have many contacts in address book from a certain company that just changed its name. Is there a way to globally change all the contacts to the new company name all at once?
I have many contacts in address book from a certain company that just changed its name. Is there a way to globally change all the contacts to the new company name all at once?
Rando510 wrote:
Although clunky as you say, this sounds like a reasonably efficient way to accomplish what I was seeking.
Address Book has no global find/replace. Bob Grove suggested one possible workaround; however, a grep-capable text editor (eg, TextWrangler) is better than TextEdit if complex strings are involved.
An alternative is Bento (which is designed specifically to interact with the AB database), but it's not free.
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