Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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Finding an Address

You can search for an Address Book entry inside the currently selected group by typing

a few letters of the name (or address, or any other snippet of contact information) in

the capsule-shaped Search box (see Figure 10-15). To search all your contacts instead

of just the current group, click All in the Group list.

Tip: For time-saving convenience, press c-F to jump to the Search field.

If Address Book finds more than one matching card, use the up and down arrow keys

(or the Return and Shift-Return keystrokes) to navigate through them.

Once you’ve found the card you’re looking for, Address Book lets you perform some

interesting stunts. If you click the label of a phone number (“home” or “office,” for

example), you see the Large Type option: Address Book displays the phone number

in an absurdly gigantic font that fills the entire width of your screen, making it all but

impossible to misread the number as you dial the phone from across the room. You

can also click the label of an email address to create a preaddressed email message,

or click a home-page label to launch your Web browser and go to a contact’s site.

Clicking an address label even gives you the option of getting a map of the address

via your Web browser (Figure 10-16).

You can also just copy and paste address card info, or drag it into another program.

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