Managing address book

Hi
I must be a bit slow today but I cannot get my address book to sort the names in the list in alphabetical order. Also, I want to clean up the list but the program will not let me delete any old contacts.
Any suggestions welcome.
Signed
Frustrated

The only thing I can think of is if you go to Preferences, under the General section you can choose which method you want to sort your contacts with. Hope that helps.

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I am able to add names to the address book, but I don't know how to delete them. I can drag a name to the To field of a new message, but I cannot add any names after that by dragging from address book. I don't see how to create a group in address book. The only heading under Group is All Contacts. I can't seem to find the answers to these questions in the Help menu. Can someone fill me in? Thanx.

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Are you getting to the Address Book through the icon in Mail, or are you opening it from the Applications folder? Note that you're opening the same contact database, but the Mail shortcut has fewer options. So, open AB from Applications (it is also in your Dock by default, unless you removed it).
To delete a contact, highlight it, and hit the Delete key.
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I believe I have looked at almost any contact manager available in the Arch repos and the AUR, but I may still have missed one. If any of you know of a contact app with a sense of time, please speak up.
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I'm kind of sad that the best / easiest / simplest solution so far sounds like just keeping a digital version of the original paper-based solution, AKA a plain text file. :/ Benefits over paper include being able to do a search and never having to wonder if that scribble was a "5" or a "6". :P
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