Color Coding Contacts in Address Book?

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Color Coding Contacts in Address Book?

I hate Microsoft Entourage and have been wanting to jettison it forever. The only thing holding me back? I LOVE to color code my contacts so that I can view them in the address book and in email based on who they are - purple is family, work related is green.

My question is this. How can I color code my contacts? Is this even possible. I've been through this thing top to bottom and am either missing the most obvious thing of all time or I'm clueless. If I can color code folders on my desktop, why not contacts in address book, right?

Save me! I WANT to use Mail, Address Book and iCal!!!!

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 18, 2007 1:20 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 18, 2007 1:37 PM in response to SpinFoss

You can't "color code" anything. Apple Mail is not some sprawling feature-bloated Microsoft project. It's a very small footprint and tightly programmed address book database that is well integrated into the OS. It is possible Address Book will include color properties in the future, but that king of visual noise is not Apple's style.

If you relly must have a colored family, you should stick to Entourage.

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Answer 2

Jan 18, 2007 1:28 PM in response to SpinFoss

You can't.

But you CAN make groups, which (at least to me) is just as good.

Yeah, I was an Entourage user for forever. Just "switched" about a year ago.

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SpinFoss Author

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Jan 18, 2007 1:31 PM in response to Gnarlodious

Can I color code the groups? This seems like the ONLY thing Apple has missed EVER.

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Answer 4

Jan 18, 2007 1:33 PM in response to SpinFoss

Welcome to the discussions, SpinFoss.

You cannot colour code your contacts. What you can do is put your various contacts in Address Book into groups, and then set up rules in Mail so that incoming mail is colour-coded by group membership.

AK

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Answer 5

SpinFoss Author

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Jan 18, 2007 1:38 PM in response to Austin Kinsella1

Dude! Thank you! You were both a huge help!

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