

For example, when a contact's card includes an email address, you can click the address to send the contact email. Working with Address Book Contact InformationĪlthough Address Book provides the standard functions you expect, such as email addresses and phone numbers, the information in Address Book is dynamic. When you send email to or receive email using Mail from a contact who has an image in the related card, that image appears in the email. The Address Book is a powerful tool you can use to manage all your contact information. You can build your Address Book over time so that it includes all your contacts. Before you add any contact information, your Address Book includes a card for you and one for Apple.

The third column is the Card column, which shows the card that is selected in the Name column (see Figure 12.1). The Group column shows the groups you have created, and the Name column lists each card in your Address Book. The first two columns are Group and Name. When you open the Address Book, you will see that its window consists of three columns. Microsoft Outlook, the dominant email, calendar, and contact information application on Windows computers, also uses vcards. For example, Microsoft Entourage can read vcards, so you can provide your vcard to someone who uses that application and that person can easily add your contact information to her contact database. Address Book is not the only application that can work with vcards.
