Tip 175Create Groups of Contacts

The Contacts app lets you create groups, which are logical collections of people whose entries within your address book have things in common. For example, you could create a group for people employed by a particular company. You could even create a group for a certain set of your friends. Clicking the group’s entry within the groups listing (click ViewGroups) will then show only the people in that group.

Smart Groups take groups one step further by automatically detecting and adding people who fulfill certain criteria. To create a smart group, click FileNew Smart Group. Then in the text field alongside the Card and Contains drop-down lists, enter some text that you know will be somewhere within the address ...

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