MacBook® All-in-One For Dummies®

Chapter 6. Keeping Track with the Address Book

In This Chapter

• Adding contact cards

• Editing contacts

• Using contact information throughout Mac OS X

• Creating and e-mailing groups

• Printing contacts

• Importing and exporting vCards

Do you have a well-thumbed address book stuck in a drawer of your office desk? Or do you have a wallet or purse stuffed with sticky notes and odd scraps of paper, each of which bears an invaluable e-mail address or phone number? If so, you can finally set yourself free and enjoy the "Paperless Lifestyle" of the new millennium with the revolutionary new Rauncho Digital Address Book! As seen on TV! Only $29.95 — and it doubles as an indestructible garden hose! But wait! If you order now, we'll also send you ....

Of course, you and I would tune that stuff out as soon as we heard, "As seen on TV" — but, believe it or not, the Rauncho Digital Address Book does exist (after a fashion), and you already have one on your MacBook. It's called the Address Book, and in this chapter, I show you how to store and retrieve all your contact data, including iChat information, photographs, and much more.

(And before you ask, operators are not standing by.)

Hey, Isn't the Address Book Just a Part of Mail?

It's true that in early versions of Mac OS X, Address Book was relegated to the minor leagues and usually appeared only when you asked for it within Mail. Although it could be run as a separate application, there was no convenient route to the Address Book from the Desktop, so most Mac ...