What happened to Address Book categories?

I was just starting to get everything together to send my Christmas cards out and have discovered that there is no way to print labels like I used to do from the Address Book. I used to just go into the Address Book, select the "Xmas Card" category and print my sheets of labels. Now, I can still see the categories when I look at the individual contacts, but I don't see a way to print a sheet of labels (i.e., every address in the Xmas category) for the specified category.
Is this function gone? Is there any other way to do this from the Address Book?
Thanks for any advice/replies.
Karin

Never mind--I figured it out. You just create a group and drag the contacts into it. Then, you can print the address labels from there. You can even select a specific template number from within the Print dialog box if you're using Avery labels, which I did. Easy as can be!

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