This document describes how to print data contained in the Address Book application that comes with Mac OS X 10.2.x. For Mac OS X 10.3 or later, see the following documents:
The Print dialog for Address Book has two application specific options available for printing: Phone list and Email list.
Phone list will print the names and phone numbers of the selected records. Email list will print the names and email addresses of the selected records.
To access these options follow these steps:
- Open the Address Book application.
- Choose File > Print.
- Choose Address Book from the option categories pop-up menu.
- Choose either Phone list or Email list from the Print pop-up menu.
If you need to print a complete record of the Address Book data, then follow one of these three methods:
Method 1
- Open Address Book.
- Choose View > Card and Columns.
- Select any name. Note: You can narrow the names printed by creating a group first, then selecting the group and then a name in the group.
- Choose Edit > Select All.
- Choose File > Export vCards.
- Type a name for the file in the Save field, navigate to the place you want to save the file to and click Save.
- Open TextEdit and choose FIle > Open.
- Locate the file you saved in step 5 and click Open.
- Choose File > Print.
Method 2
- If you already have a program that accepts vCard input, do steps 1-5 in Method 1 and then follow the program's instructions on how to import vCard data.
Method 3
- A third-party utility called iDress is available from Incarna http://www.incarna.com/. iDress provides a variety of printing templates for Address Book.