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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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Figure 11-14. <strong>Leopard</strong>’s Address Book<br />

Adding and Editing Contacts<br />

CHAPTER 11 MAIL, ADDRESS BOOK, AND iCAL 221<br />

You can get new contacts into your Address Book in a few ways. One way is to simply import<br />

them from another device or file. The other way is to manually enter them.<br />

You can import contacts to Address Book by syncing your Address Book through .<strong>Mac</strong>,<br />

Exchange, or Yahoo or by using iSync to sync Address Book to a mobile device. Syncing through<br />

.<strong>Mac</strong>, Exchange, or Yahoo can be configured from within the General tab of Address Book’s<br />

preferences.<br />

You can also import contacts from various files including vCards (which are a standard way<br />

of sharing contact information among many contact management clients), LDIF files (which are<br />

a standard format for exchanging LDAP data), or even comma-separated value (CSV) or tabdelimited<br />

text files. Finally, you can also import contact data from Address Book archive files.<br />

Any of these can be imported using the File ➤ Import submenu on the menu bar; additionally,<br />

you can drag vCard files into Address Book to import them or simply double-click them in the<br />

Finder, provided that Address Book is the default application for dealing with vCards. (Additionally,<br />

if you drag a contact from Address Book, it will be exported as a vCard.)<br />

If you need to add a new contact from scratch, either click the + button at the bottom of the<br />

Name column, select the File ➤ New Card menu, or press Cmd+N. This will create a new empty<br />

contact card ready to edit in the card view area (Figure 11-15).<br />

NOTE The card view area has two modes: an edit mode and a view mode. By default,<br />

Address Book opens with cards in view mode that will hide empty fields and restrict the editing<br />

of the contact fields (clicking a field name in view mode will generally open a menu with<br />

options pertaining to the type of field it represents). Address Book will switch to edit mode<br />

when you create a new contact. In edit mode, clicking a field will select it for editing; additionally,<br />

all default template fields will be visible even if they are empty, and you will be able to add<br />

new fields. To toggle between the modes, click the Edit button beneath the card view area.

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