If you need to quickly copy someone’s entire address—for pasting into an email, for example—make sure that you’re not in Edit mode. Then click the label of the address field (e.g., “work”) and choose Copy Mailing Label.
Choose Copy Mailing Label to save this address to your Clipboard.
While you’re in the same contextual menu (from clicking the address-field label as described in step 9), you can choose Map Of to go to a Google Map of that location in your default browser. Or choose Copy URL Of Map if you want to paste that map’s URL into an email or chat.
Clicking our work address and selecting Map Of gave us this map to Mac|Life HQ.
If you’re going blind (like we are) and can’t see those small phone numbers when you’re trying to call someone, first make sure that you’re not in Edit mode, and then click the label of the phone (e.g. “mobile”) and choose Large Type. This will fill your entire screen with the selected phone number—super useful when you’re walking to the fax machine all the way across the room.
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pvdmark
January 18, 2010 at 12:49pm
Is there a shortcut for opening the address book on the desktop? The program is open and the only way to open the book is by going up to the pull down named "window" and clicking "address book". What's up with that?
Thanks for the shortcuts. I never realized the options for large type, label and map. Great.
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julieisforlovers
November 02, 2009 at 4:31am
thanks for the information about getting the birthdays into iCal and how to get the autofill. very helpful!
william2a
October 06, 2009 at 1:01am
Unfortunately, the field "show birthday" doesnn't appear in my iCal preferences. Does somebody have an idea?
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ginopiazza49
September 22, 2009 at 5:58pm
Are there any Address Book plug ins that will calculate a persons age from the birthday field? I also know there are programs like GeburtstagsChecker and iBirthday X.Between those two programs, can you recommend one over the other?
derekcbart
September 21, 2009 at 4:48pm
Hello.I am generally happy with Mac OS 10.6, but the most useful Address Book editing feature was removed in the new version. In the previous version if you started to type text into a field and then click Function+F5 it would give you a pulldown menu of every entry used in that field. For example, you want to add "Account Manager" to a person's Job Title. You could start typing "acc" and then click Function+F5 and a pulldown menu would appear that included Account Manager (assuming that someone else in your address book already had this job title).This shortcut has been removed. Now when you click Function+F5 you still get a pulldown menu, but it appears to be coming from the Mac Dictionary and is totally worthless as a shortcut to enter previously entered job titles.Very frustrating. If you can find out how to do this shortcut again in the 10.6 version of Address Book I would be immensely happy.Thank you.
thejewishrapper
November 18, 2009 at 4:50pm
yes yes- same issue here - have you found a solution to the Fn-F5 drop down auto-fill shortcut? Also, SL really screwed up Address Book. It no longer copies all the data of the whole contact (only field by field) AND one can no longer highlight and copy a contacts web address - you actually have to go to the site and copy it from the Safari bar.
hawaiiinsomniac
September 16, 2009 at 1:49am
I love having Birthdays filters into the calendar but its a shame that it can't be synched via MobileMe.
mr100percent
September 15, 2009 at 12:24pm
There's even a few apps that will copy your friends' birthdays from facebook into the address book and iCal
