Smart Group to contain all contact entries containing a specific field

Hi, does anyone know of a way to display all of my contacts which contain the 'other' field for phone numbers. Basically i'm haveing a problem syncing this field to a blackberry (i have been told this is going to be corrected). However until such time if it is possible to show me the contacts that contain this field, i could just change 'other' to 'mobile/work etc...' which sync fine.

No, but it is easy to use Applescript to make the change for you - but back up your Address Book first in case it goes wrong.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "Address Book"
repeat with ThisOne in people
repeat with ThisPhone in phones of ThisOne
if label of ThisPhone is "other" then
set label of ThisPhone to "work"
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell</pre>
(The recent upgrade to the discussions has disabled the link that allows direct opening of a script, so run Script Editor and copy in the script.)

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