Wheres the address book in mail

When I send a message in mail in the "To" field there is no shortcut to the address book at the end of the field.
I have my contacts arranged into lots of different contact groups, which I use to visually and easily navigate to them the predictive input is frequently useless, and disorientating. Sometimes I cant use it at all because I don't know the first letter of a contact I just know what contact group its in and its a case of I'll recognize it when I see it, how do I get the address book short cut in the "To" field back

What you need to do is add the Address Book button to your button bar in two places.
1. Right click on the Mail button bar and select Customize Buttons. Then add the Address Book button to the button bar.
2. Compose a new email. Right click on the button bar within the compose and select Customize Buttons. Add the Address Book button to your button bar.
Now, whenever you open Mail, you'll see a button to click for Address Book and whenever you compose an email you'll have the Address Book available.

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It is using the same database on disk. You may have to re-launch Mail.

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Are they in Login items under System Preferences/Users/Login Items?
In the Dock, right click the Address Book and Mail icons, select Options, and make sure "Open at Login" is not selected.

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Because the address book accompanying Mail was in my way, I clicked the upper left red button to send it away. Now I want it back, but can't figure out how to do that. I tried shutting Mail down and then opening it again, but the address book did not appear. I tried re-starting the computer, and that didn't bring it back either. How do I make it return?
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Good news, thanks, great to hear!
Amazing how many Mac users are willing to take time to give assistance to those of us on another (lower) level of competence with these complicated machines.
Two things on that...
First, I'd bet Dollars to Donuts that you know something I don't.
Secondly, I think we have only two choices in this world... make your world a better place to live, or make it a worse place to live!
Thanks again, glad I could help... I'm just a learner here!

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I don't have any problem with my system. My guess is there is something there you aren't quite getting. I'd recommend a visit to your Apple Store, AASP or to contact AppleCare so they can coach you personally.
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What is the deal with the new Mavericks version of the Mail program..? I cannot simply double click in the address book to place names in the address line?

I can no longer simply double click on a name in the contacts list to place that name into an an email??
You now have to select a single name(or a group), and hit the "TO" button.
Have the engineers at Apple gone nuts?? They just made it more difficult to add names?? Are they going for a windows workability??
If anyone out there can tell me how to go back to this feature, please, please let me know..
Adding addresses is now not working very well....?? Please help!
Randy

OK, JUST TO CLARIFY: I OPEN MY MAIL PROGRAM. I then start a new letter. I then click on the little person icon button which opens up the address/contacts list. This action does not open up the address book as such.
I simply want to select various contacts from the list. But now I can no longer simply go down the list to double click on those contacts that I want to automatically drop into the TO field of my new message. It does not work any longer in Mavericks??
Now I have to click on each contact, and then go up, and click again on the TO button ....
Can Apple please stop making tasks more difficult?? The previous version worked great, and now it has been upgraded so that it doesn't work as simply as it did??
Frustrated.!!!

Suddendly (no external shock) Thunderbird stopped finding the address book, but it finds the right addresses when sending a mail with a name existing in the Boo

The phrase is all what happens. If ask for the address of, say, Joe (existing in the book), it gives nothing. If I write an e-mail message to Joe, Thunderbird inserts the correct address to Joe, and if I send it, it goes correctly. The Address book looks "strange" its content (nearly empty) does not correspond to what it was. I am working in Linux Mint 17.1 with great satisfaction fo the rest.
Thanks for helping. Giancarlo.

Thanks for answering,
however I miss what to send you: The address book is missing most of my contacts (they were there, before), but if I send a mail to one of those missing contacts Thunderbird attach the correct address without my intervention: funny. Mau be a virus did that, bu how can I recover the missing address book (hidden somewhere, certainly). I cannot show in a screen copy the facts I describe here. Anyway I enclose the screenshot of the opening of the actual address book. Please ask me any useful question on the above.
Again thank and greetings,
giancarlo.

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Click the "+" button at the bottom of the column. Click the edit button at the bottom to make changes to an existing card.

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