Review before merging duplicated Address Book Cards?

Is there a way to review the merges that Address Book will perform when I choose the "Look for Duplicates" command? (Maybe a third party app?) I do not want to accept Address Books merge choices before reviewing them. Thanks.

Yes, the problem is that pages puts each copy of the document in its own section. If you create a template with 8 copies of the label, it will fill in the fields from 1 address 8 times before going on to the next address. You need a template with one label in it, however when you do this you will get 8 sheets with one address label in each.
I got around this for a sheet of 3x7 labels as follows.
- make sure the page margins match your label stationary.
- format the page into the number of columns you want (3 for me, probably 2 for you), and set the gutters to match your stationary.
- place the whole label in a single cell table - set the size of this to your label size using the graphics inspector.
- do the mail merge
- now use find and replace to replace all the section break characters with nothing.
- You'll need to play around with the exact size of the table until it matches the label size. Note that pages creates a bit of extra whitespace between the tables, so you end up reducing the table size by about .1cm or so.
- Now save your master document as a template so you can use it again.

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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

"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

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

Drag and drop an Address Book card onto a Pages address field

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.
Peter

How to Merge 2 Address Books

Hi folks. Just wanted to know if anybody knew how to merge 2 address books. I don't mean two identical or similar contacts. Whole address books.
A duplicated, put into B machine. They both took on separate lives.
This is what I am thinking:
- A backed up.
- B exported.
- B imported into A, conflicts resolved (that could take some time, if it's manual, as my book has 1600 cards)
- A (which is new), exported, put back into B.
Any ideas?
Cheers

Well, unfortunately, Address Book doesn't have a function to compare then only merge identical cards. Its four import options are Keep Old, Keep New, Keep Both, and Update. The Update option is closest to what you want, but it will assume that contacts with similar fields (like the John Q Public example I gave earlier) are the same person and will combine them into one (I found this out the hard way).
Your best bet I think would be to export All Contacts for each Address Book as a single vcard (this is the only format that Address Book natively exports), open in a spreadsheet/database program that can compare and merge identical fields, and do the combine there. Address Book can import .csv files, so something like Excel or Araxis Merge (➚) might be able to do it (I don't know if Excel's Merge Workbooks function is applicable in this case).
Perhaps other people have suggestions on how to only combine identical cards. I don't know programming, so AppleScript and Terminal puts me out of my depth. For what you want to do, Address Book's import/export functions are insufficient by themselves.

Having problems using mail merge from address book to word for labels

I've downloaded and opened avery labels to word and would now like to merge an address book from my mac.
When I get to the Mail Merge Manager and go to 'get list', my address book is not accessible.
I'm sure there's a simple way to do this but have not been successful googling or using the help options on both
pages and address book.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Hi shaun
Looks like Pages '08 works the same as the previous version. You can't get data from multiple cards in one document. Try using Address Book's native label printing feature.
Good luck!

Merge two address books

hi i have two computers
how i merge the address books on both into one
also, how do i ensure i do not end up with duplicates
thjanks

Greetings,
If you are a MobileMe subscriber you can turn on Addressbook syncing on both computers. This will automatically compare both addressbooks and update them so they match.
Alternatively:
_Go to each addressbook and click on "All Contacts" in the upper left
_Go to File > Export > Group vCard
_Take the resulting vCard file to the other computer and open the file up
__Once the vCard is imported go to Card > Look for Duplicates
____This will scan for and resolve any duplicates although you may want to go through afterword to make sure it go them all. Any remaining duplicates can be resolved by highlighting the duplicate cards and going to Card > Merge Selected Cards (or just deleting one of the duplicates)
Cheers.

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.
Is there any way that I can accomplish this with one Address Book card with multiple birthday fields?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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.

Merging 2 address books without overwriting

I want to add the contents of the address book on my office desktop IMac running leopard 10.5.6 into the address book on my black macbook laptop also running 10.5.6. is there a way to do this without completely overwriting the contents on my laptop? I don't want to lose what's already there, only add in the additional names and addresses. There is no security issue. I own the company and both machines.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Hi,
So here's what I did. My iMac G5 running Tiger blew up (logic board) and, while I wait for my new 27" iMac, I needed to put all the contacts from the old iMac on my macbook (running Leopard), where I keep different contacts. Since I couldn't open the iMac contacts and export them as vCards (because that computer was dead and all the user data is backed up on an external HD) for instance I needed to merge both address books another way.
After reading through all these discussions and the ones on macrumors, and realizing that Address Book doesn't come equipped to do this easily (probably to get you to pay for a mobileme account) I took a deep breath and just did the following: Created an archive of the existing contacts on my macbook and then moved the entire macbook ~library/application support/Address Book folder to some place safe just as a backup of those; then copied the same folder from my iMac backup archive into that location on the macbook. Voila, not only did all my old addresses appear, but all the macbook ones were there too, without having to reimport them. No idea why this worked but it did. WOuld love however if someone more knowledgeable has an explanation.
Couple of notes. I tried using migration assistant, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to just migrate the address book and nothing else from my iMac user account backup. Don't want all that stuff on my macbook. Also, if you try to import an Address Book Archive, it warns you that it will delete all current addresses, so won't work to merge two different address books. And if the macbook addresses had appeared magically, my plan was to export all the addresses from the iMac that were now available on my MacBook, then replace the ~library/application support/Address Book folders again and import the vCards.
Final note, you'd think it would be easier to synch the addresses books on two computers. I'm sure plenty of folks have both a desktop and laptop they use for different things but would like to have all their addresses available on both machines. But, as I said, I suspect it has to do with drumming up mobileme business.
Anyways, I hope this helps someone else and I'd love some feedback on why this worked.

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
Hope this helps

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.
--jody.

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Duplicated address book entries

This is a repeating problem that never seems to get resolved, but just wondering if anyone knows the cause. I get duplicated contacts, not just a couple, but hundreds, and not just duplicated once but many times.
For instance I have a local company listed three times as an individual and 11 times as a business - maddening - my address book ends up enormous - see image that shows one section of the list view.
The details in the cards are sometimes slightly diferent, but generally it will be that for example ione card will list a mobile number above a landline, and the other will reverse to order.
Or details in the Notes section will be repeated, or written with additional line spaces between them. I have called apple support in the past, several times in fact, each time their not terribly useful advice is to manually delete all the duplicates on one Mac (I have 3) and then delete all the contacts from the others, and my iPhone, and then replace the contacts on iCloud with those from the chosen Mac. (merging simply adds even more lines of notes for example, or multiple identcal mobile numbers, so it has to be manual) just one example....
I have done this in the past, it is very time consuming, with close on a thousand contacts, most of them duplicated more than once it is really dull, especially when I know I will shortly be back to this same mess again.
Does anyone know of a way of identifying where the duplicates are originating? ...and better, how to stop them?
This has basically been an issue ever since I got my original iPhone to start syncing wirelessly years ago.
Great idea having synced contacts, sadly from the duplication perspective it worked better with bluetooth and my old Sony phone 8 years ago than it does now.
Am I the only user to have this issue?
I sort of doubt it. Any solutions much appreciated.
Stephen

If you have duplicated contacts on your Mac and in iCloud and show "All Contacts" in the Contacts sidebar, then you will see duplicates. Do you still see these duplicates if you only show the iCloud contacts?
If so I would sugest that you clean up your contacts on iCloud.com, removing all the duplicates so you have a good list of contacts
turn off icloud -> Contacts in your phone andwhen asked choose to REMOVE all the contacts (if you don't they will be merged in again with the iCloud contacts when you turn it back on creating duplicates again in your icloud account!)
Do the same on your Mac or merely replace your Mac contacts with those from iCloud onyour next merge.

Review before merging duplicated Address Book Cards?

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