Mac 101: Address Book A-Z

Hi,

I like Address Book and iCal a lot, but would like to find an easy way to manage actions in relation to a person and a time. For example, set a time to call a person who is in the Address Book and then have a To Do created in iCal.

Is there a way to do this without creating the to-dos in iCal and go between the applications? I think I'm looking for some kind of link between the two applications.

David

Hi,

I use the regular mac email (in distinction to mobileme) and I, for the life of me, can't figure out how to create a group. I have a large group of people at a particular org. that I want to send email to, and I can't find a way to set up a group and then copy their email addresses into it. I have a MacBook OS X 10.4.11.

Thanks so much to anyone that can help.

Anyone know of a way to copy an existing contact into a new group and change the name without it changing it in every instance? I have pulled contacts out of our "home," group to use with my iPhone. We may have them in there as "The Smith's," but I am going to want to change it to "John," for bluetooth purposes etc.... I seem to overwrite all instances and can't seem to eliminate the copied contact from other group memberships.

Thanks for the help.

Address Book shortcut for adding or updating addresses or phone numbers found on Safari web pages:

In Safari, use menu option File/Mail Contents of This Page ⌘I , to mail the webpage to yourself.

Then open the email in Apple Mail ( mail.app) and control click on the address to Create New Contact, or Add to Existing Contact..

This works particularly well form Google Map pages.

I can not figure out how to copy an address from one card to another. Let's say I have a card for bob Smith and one for Jane Smith. Rather than copying Bob's street address and pasting it in Jane's car, and then copying Bob's city and pasting it in Jane's card, and then copying state, etc., is there a way to copy the whole address to another person's card? It would be especially helpful for business contacts where you have ten people at one address.

I like my Address Book organized 'last name first'. Unfortunately, when I add a contact directly from Apple Mail (by clicking on the address and then clicking "Add to Address Book"), the address is added to Address Book 'first name first'.

Apparently, Mail and Address Book don't know how to coordinate this last little detail. Is there anyway to remedy this? Maybe a Terminal code?

Here are 13 really good video tutorials for Address Book
http://www.woopid.com/gvideos.php?gid=25

Hi there,

I realise that this may not be the best place to ask and that there is most likely no real hope as numerous intarweb searches have revealed little or perhaps have but the solutions been over our heads,

but a good friend of mine has lost the contact details he had stored in address book pretty much after an phone/isync backup gone wrong.

from what I can tell it seems as if isync had copied the black address book from his phone and overwrote the entries that were saved.

it seems that he doesn't have any spare drives so hasn't been using time machine

does isync make multiple backups that you can choose to restore to like itunes does for iphones/ipods or is it a "current version = only version" situation

- is there any way to retrieve this short of finding a Delorean and hitting 88 miles an hour?

if anyone knows anything about this or has been in a similar situation can you please post what ever you know.

Regards.

T28

Hi i have just purchased a new mac book pro after years in PC mode. Is there an easy way to import all my contacts and addresses from outlook into the address book. i have them all saved as a CSV file on the mac desktop or in a Maxtor back up disk?

My wife has been using Mac Mail but not the Address Book so she has lots of email addresses that pop up in the To: field in Mail when she types the first couple letters.

How can I copy those email addresses into Address Book? Where does Mail keep those addresses? She wants to populate her Address Book to sync with a new iPhone but it sure would be easier if all the email addresses didn't have to be retyped, just the names and phone numbers.

Thanks