Hi Mark, I took a look at using data detectors and enabling this in TextEdit, which may help with your importing into Address Book. If you are using TextEdit you can enable this feature by using the context menu, VO-Shift-M, and then either quickly pressing "s u" or arrowing down to the "Substitutions" menu option, pressing Right arrow to move to the "Substitutions" submenu, and arrowing down to "Data Detectors" and pressing "return" to select that option.
What this lets you do is navigate to entries in your TextEdit document that appear to contain addresses and easily add them to your Address Book as either new contact entries, or as additions to existing contacts via the context menu. Try this out by navigating to the recipient's address in a letter you compose in TextEdit. For example, if I'm reviewing the letter and use VO-Down arrow to move to one of the address lines, the context menu brought up with VO-Shift-M contains options for "Create new contact…", "Add to existing contact…", and "Show address in Google Maps". If you want to enable use of data detectors in TextEdit for all new documents, you can bring up the preferences menu with Command-Comma, and on the "New Document" tab that is probably selected by default, navigate to the check boxes under "Options" and check "Data Detectors" with VO-Space, I admit that I hadn't used this previously from TextEdit. Data detectors are turned on by default in Mail. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: *sigh* I *KNEW* that not putting people's addresses into AddressBook's database would come back to bite me in the bum sooner or later. *laugh* Thanks for this, Esther; it almost looks possible from Format in TextEdit, if I change the paper size and margins, so I could make a "sample template," for envelopes in TextEdit. Your way is faster--or would, if I ever bothered to write people down. :) • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: [email protected] • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
