Printing an address book?

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Printing an address book?

Since upgrading to Leopard, I've lost access to a very old (bought originally for my Mac Plus way back when) yet extremely useful program called Address Book, which would allow me to edit and format my family address book in many ways -- for daytimers, mini books, 4" books, labels -- lots of formats and print them out. I have one at daytimer books at my desk and in the kitchen, and a little book in my purse. Very handy. I can't do this with Apple Address Book, FileMaker Pro v7, or Bento. Can anyone suggest a program that will do this for me? I've searched the web for days and not found anything that will allow me to print my family address book.

imac and mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Jan 20, 2008 4:54 PM

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tjcdaj

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Jan 20, 2008 10:34 PM in response to Swellking123

actually, it is possible to do this in Apple's Address Book.app. First, select the group you want to print, then the print dialog box appears, click the down arrow and the dialog box shows many options. In the middle of the print dialog box is a drop down menu called "Style:". In that mean, you can print the addresses on envelopes, create labels, print a list, and print a pocket size address book.

Hope this helps.

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Jan 21, 2008 6:30 AM in response to tjcdaj

Apple's implementation is not near as good as the "Address Book" application that the original poster was referring to. There are several other applications around that do this, but none comes close to the flexibility of the above application.

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dlando

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Jan 21, 2008 8:31 AM in response to crabuback

Can you identify some(speciic) "good" address book printing programs

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Swellking123 Author

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Jan 21, 2008 10:06 AM in response to Swellking123

Hey all you developers out there -- I'd pay $$ for such a program! Hey Apple, how about an upgrade in Address Book Leopard that does this? It can't be that big a deal, the old program ran on my Mac Plus that had all of 2 mgs of ram.

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Feb 28, 2008 8:27 PM in response to Swellking123

unfortunately I am also searching for a decent Mac Address book. Disappointing that I have spent hours entering information into my Address Book, only to find it so limiting.

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Apr 15, 2008 7:07 AM in response to JamminJ01

Hi,

Maybee you could use Palm Desktop .app that prints very nicely and can be configured. Address Book printing can also be configured but my trouble is that I don't get the expected result from my printer. It seems knowing only A4 paper sheets but never take note of others formats it offers in its pop-menu whichever I use ..
On the other hand Palm Desktop is a free app that you should find at palm-os (or is it Handspring ?) site (sorry I have no time for googling for you). It did whatever I wanted it to do for a long time (first one was with my LC 475 another old user)and wasn't my new iPhone I would have kept it .. You should be able to export your address book data and import it in Palm Desktop ® without too much troubles.

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