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Contacts does not print out in alphabetical order

Has something happened to printing lists from Contacts? Don't know if it is Contacts or Mountain Lion.


I have not printed a listin in ML before, but in former versions, an alphabetical listing was generated in alpha order. Now printing a list gives the names out of alpha order. This is the case of a group or All Contacts. This is not just my machine, but another computer in the house running the lastest software.


I find nothing in the printing details to select alpha order. The Contacts is set up to view in last name-first name order.


I also checked all boxes in atributes to see if there was a strange happening there, but the sorted order is identical. It is not sorting by first name either.


Contact preferences is at show first name before last name andsort by last name. I have changed those parameters and there is no effect of the order of names in printing.


Pocket address book prints in alpha order. Mailing labels prints out of order and left off some of the first of the listing. Listing all contacts is also out of order.

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), 2.8 GHz Quad core, 6 GB ram

Posted on Oct 30, 2012 1:50 PM

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Oct 30, 2012 2:04 PM in response to Derryl S

Further checking and went back to Lion (10.7.4) and Address Book (6.1.2) that is on another drive and it prints as expected with all the preferences and choices the same. (the Lion partition was created (cloned) immediately before upgrading the primary drive to Mountain Lion so all the information was carried across)


It appears that is is either Mountain Lion and/or Contacts!!! Hard copy printouts of an address book are useless if not in alphabetical order.

Oct 30, 2012 6:28 PM in response to Derryl S

amazing.... when I had SnowLeopard it printed fine even wih pictures. Never printed in Lion. Now am making a list in Mountain Lion and I have the same problem. The labels and envelopes print preview show 174 conacts all in alphabetical order but the list shows 348 contacts all out of order and with no pictures. Can'f find an answer anywhere. Hope someone responds fairly soon.

Jan 11, 2013 3:07 AM in response to Derryl S

I just found a way to print contacts in ABC order. I signed in to my iCloud account online, then went to Contacts. I selected the contact group I wanted to print on the left page (example Xmas card list). On the right page at the bottom, I clicked on the gear symbol and clicked "select all", then clicked again on "print". When the print window appeared, I saved the file to PDF, just to see if the information was in ABC. It was!

Jan 11, 2013 4:38 AM in response to Ocalamarilyn

Ocalamarilyn ....You are a genius!!!!! Finally I was able to print the complete contact's book alphabetically.... I've been trying to figure that one out since I installed Mountain Lion!!!!........ of course you can only print a list this way but it doesn't matter with lables or envelopes cause they don't have to be in any sort of order. You don't get a chance to select the items you want to show but who cares for now. thank you, thank you thank you..... I hope everyone who has written to this feed sees your reply..... You made my day!!!!! by the way, do you live in Fl cause I'm in Summerfield.🙂

Jan 11, 2013 4:52 AM in response to kattnip333

Yes, I'm in Ocala. We're neighbors! You might be interested in joining my OMUG group. We get a wealth of information on many topics. Here's the website. http://ocalamug.org. We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. The website has all the info and lots of tech tips. On the 3rd Saturday, there's a workshop from 10 to noon. Lots of basics. Maybe we'll get to meet someday. Glad I could be of help to you.

Contacts does not print out in alphabetical order

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