Manage your holiday mailing list with Address Book

Does anyone have an answer to how to get the company name included on the mailing label?

I'm having difficulty getting past the "spouse" and "children" fields being printed on my envelopes. Some of the holiday cards I'm sending print the names of the children I've entered, but the children are actually grown adults who also have their own address card entry. So, their names are being printed on two cards, even though they live in a different state with their own children (the original's grandchildren). AAAUUUGGGHHH!

Or, the spouse is deceased, which I've entered to keep track of who's who's relations, but I definitely don't want that printed on the Season's Greetings I'm trying to send!

Double AAAUUUGGGHHH!

How do I choose only the recipient's names I want to use?
I can't, can I!

JWS
JWS

Getting return address labels is simple! Just make one donation to one charity, and you will receive more address labels than you can use. I receive them every year from The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society, Disabled American Veterans, etc., etc. Whatever name you use to donate is the name that appears on your labels.

I got tired of trying to game the system, as it were, and just brewed a pot of coffee (or some hot chocolate), put on "A Christmas Story", and wrote them out by hand.

Cool idea. Now if they'd just make Address Book's lists and phone book options as useful and flexible. They're horrible as it is.

This doesn't work if you have information about "Spouse" or "Child" in the V-Card info because Address Book prints those fields no matter what you pick to pring

I am trying to print address labels from Address Book for my Christmas cards. When I originally set up each card, I put Bill and Mary Jones as the name on the card. But I want my address label to read Mr. and Mrs. William Jones. I have put this in as the Company Name (in other words, in one of the blank fields on an Address Card). BUT when I go to print the 2007Christmas group, I can't access the Company Name - the label is addressed to Bill and Mary Jones. Address Book has given us the option to choose which mailing address we want to use for each contact, but not any option for choosing other fields as a name source. Do any of you smart folks out there have a solution or do I need to rename all of my cards to Mr. and Mrs.xxxx?

Is it possible to write 'Christmas'? Or were you just too scared?

Is there a way to "print to file" instead of direct to labels? So that you could then edit in Word as needed?

Great tip - although perhaps tagging with holiday2007 would be more useful so that you'll have a record of who you sent cards each year.

The only problem I have with address book printing labels (and maybe they fixed this in 10.5) is that you cannot pick an arbitrary spot on the sheet to start printing, requiring you to commit to an entire sheet of labels each time, no matter how many actually fill the sheet. Word, on the other hand, allows you to start printing on the 3rd row, 2nd column... etc.