Macs All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 1

Managing Contacts

IN THIS CHAPTER

Setting up Contacts

Editing, searching, deleting, and grouping contacts

Sharing contacts

Your Mac comes with a contact management app called (surprise!) Contacts. Here you store names of people and businesses along with all sorts of information about them: phone numbers; street addresses; virtual addresses, such as those used for email, instant messaging, or websites; social network usernames; and more intimate information, such as birthdays, anniversaries, and relations. Besides storing contact names and related contact information, Contacts can display contact information from more than one source, and it syncs with your iOS or Android devices — meaning that if you make a change to contact information on one device or computer, it’s automatically updated on all your devices. Contacts also connects with other applications on your Mac so you can click someone’s email address and immediately

• Write and send an email or message to that person.
• Open a FaceTime conversation.
• Click the pin next to a street address and see it in Maps.

If by chance you still send letters or gifts the old-fashioned postal way, you can also print envelopes and ...