Does anyone know how I can copy the entire contents of an Address Book group and paste the results into an e-mail to send to others? When I select the group and then the "copy" tool, it copies only the first address in the group. If I select "select all", it selects all e-mail addresses everywhere, not just the ones in the intended group.
Mail 4.5, Address Book 5.0.3-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
The following works for me.
You can attach this file to an email. To send an email to all in a group press the To button. after 1,2 and 3.
Unfortunately, when I press control-A, I hear the "error" tone - it does not select the entire group.
Sorry. My bad. Should have said command-A. 😊
Rats! The result (a vCard) was sent to my boss; he opened it and it just added the contacts to his list (it didn't provide him with a list of e-mail addresses). I'll have to create a Word document to share my group e-mail list with others. Thank you for trying to help.
What is it you are trying to copy. It sort of sounds like you just want to send an email to everyone in the group.
If that is the case, type the group name into the To field.
No, what I want to do is copy and paste the contents of one of my Groups and e-mail that data to my boss so that he doesn't have to spend the time to type the same list in his Address Book.
That's what you did with the vCard. You even said it added them to his address book.
I don't understand what is wrong, now.
He did not want to add them all to his address book; he simply wanted to have my long list of staff email addresses without having to type it or create it himself, like this: name1@server.sdsu.edu, name2@server.sdsu.edu, name3@server.sdsu.edu, name4@server.sdsu.edu, etc. We used to use an email application called Eudora which allowed you to copy and paste group lists as though they were just text characters. With Mail (and Address Book), everything is connected to everything else and a group list is actually a set of flagged contacts from your "All Contacts" list.
Ok. Not very elegant but.
There is your list.
Take a look at any one of these: http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/%2Bexport%20%2Baddress%20book%20contents
Wow! What an amazing brain you have. Your suggested solution works perfectly. Thank you.
How can I copy the contents of an address book group
