Synching Address Book with Apple Mail contacts

I have recently cleaned out and reorganized Address Book. I deleted dead people, replaced old email addresses, phone numbers etc. But the contact list that comes up when I click the Address icon after New Message is clicked is not the same email list as Address Book (though its icon is).
How can I synch the two? There is no pull-down "synch with Address Book" command.
Grateful for any help

I looked and found Previous Recipients under Window (never noticed it before). But that is manually repeating what I have just done with Address Book. That took two days. I'm looking for a way to sync the two with one click

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V.K.,
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