How to print a mini address book from Address Book

Ivan over at creativebits has another clever trick: print a little address book for your pocket or purse using Address Book. Who knew? Oh, there it is in the Help.

Apparently you don't have to print the whole thing, as you can limit the address book to a group. The fact that this is quite handy but sorta hidden inside is the fundamental problem with all powerful tools: to make them easy to use, we have to hide functionality. In other words, Address Book would be pretty scary if it looked like the inside of an F-15, where all the functionality is there on the surface. Anyway, finding this tip made me nostalgic for the old "point-and-click" training video that used to come with some Performas. I hope they bring an option like that back for all these switchers we'll be seeing this year. Maybe for iLife '07?

View Tags

Source: http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/going_offline_but_staying_i…

Categories

Software Tips and tricks

Ivan over at creativebits has another clever trick: print a little address book for your pocket or purse using Address Book. Who knew? Oh,...

Add a Comment

Sign in »

3 Comments

Filter by:

Simon

Apple has a whole bunch of training videos online that cover various aspects of iLife and the pro apps as well.

http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/

May 17 2006 at 9:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ralph

Agreed; Apple needs to do some beefing up of Address Book. There are secondary apps that can do all sorts of neat things from data in the Address Book (see BeLight's Mail Factory as an example) but building some things into the app would be appreciated.

May 17 2006 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I just wish there was a way to print a sheet of mailing labels containing the same address from within Address Book.

May 17 2006 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply