Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

Creating Groups
You might want to create contact groups for several reasons: to create mailing lists, to make it
easier to find particular contacts, or to just keep things organized. To create a group, just click
the + button beneath the Group column, and a new group will be created. To add contacts to the
group, you can drag existing contacts from the Name column to the group item in the Group
column, or you can create new contacts from within the group.
Once the group is created, you can right-click the group name to export the vCards of the
group, send an e-mail to each member of the group, or edit the group distribution list, which will
determine which e-mail addresses are used when you send a group e-mail.
Sharing Contacts
Address Book allows you to share your contacts with specific people through .Mac. To enable
this feature, you must turn on sharing on the Sharing tab of Address Book’s preferences, and
then you must select which other .Mac member you are allowing to view (and optionally edit)
your contacts.
Viewing Shared Contact Lists
If you have permission to view a shared Address Book through .Mac, select File ➤ Subscribe to
Address Book from the menu bar, and then enter the .Mac member information of the person
whose Address Book you’d like to share. If you have permission to view these contacts, then they
will show up as a group in your Address Book.
Besides .Mac address sharing, Address Book can also display contact information being
shared through LDAP or any network directory service to which your computer has access. If
you have access to an LDAP server, you can fill in the appropriate information on the LDAP tab
of Address Book’s preferences. To configure other directory services, you will need to use the
Directory Utility in the Applications/Utilities folder. Any of these resources will appear under
the Directories item listed in the Group column.
NOTE Names for directory services will appear only in response to a search string, occasionally
a very specific search string. Ideally, if you find you need to contact certain people listed in
a directory service often, drag their information from the directory service section into a group
or the All item to add that person to your local Address Book. If you really must browse
a directory that you have access to, you can use the Directory Utility application in the
Applications/Utility folder.
Printing Labels and Envelopes
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One nice hard-to-find feature of Address Book is the ability to print labels or envelopes for a specific
contact or a group of contacts. To find this feature, select the contact or group you want to
print labels or envelopes for, and then select File ➤ Print (Cmd+P) from the menu bar. Make sure
to expand the Print dialog (Figure 11-16), and select Address Book from the Print Options menu.
This will reveal a number of options to not only print labels and envelopes but also to print
nicely formatted contact lists or small address book pages.