Pages and Address Book Possibility?

Hi There,
I am trying to find an efficient workflow for a volunteer project I coordinate. Every month, people sign up for various jobs serving the homeless, and one of my responsibilities is to email each volunteer every week to provide information and support. I have created a template for the sign-up sheet using the tables function in Pages, and I have typed in the names of all of the volunteers for each job. What I would like to do is to create a link of some sort so that I can click a person's name in the sign-up sheet and be taken immediately to his or her contact information in Address Book. From there, I can check my notes and then email that person. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!

Matt
I think you may be tackling this the wrong way. Pages will merge information from Address Book into documents, but not link back the other way.
You could merge the Address Book information into a series of pages (each with one contact) in Pages, where you could keep your notes and click on email hyperlinks to call up Mail.
If you want something else, look for a PIM (Personal Information Manager) or use a Bento database.
Try:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8029/address-office (free)
and
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24288/igtd (free)
Peter

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