Using the Address Book

[John Stafford]

Hi. When using the Address Book, I'm trying to decide if it's better to have one very large address book or subdivide it into what seems to be sensible groups and/or categories. For example, assume I have different address books, family, friends, business, but I want to do a mass mailing which includes people from different categories. I see no way to make that kind of selection unless I can give each entry some sort of attribute, like, say "Christmas Card" where everyone who has this attribute gets selected no matter what group (or address book) they have ben entered in. I guess I'm asking about a sort mechanism.

[Robert]

For example, assume I have different address books, family, friends, business, but I want to do a mass mailing which includes people from different categories. I see no way to make that kind of selection unless I can give each entry some sort of attribute, like, say "Christmas Card" where everyone who has this attribute gets selected no matter what group (or address book) they have ben entered in. I guess I'm asking about a sort mechanism.

Hi, John!

Currently, the only way to merge several of your Atlantis Address Books is to create an additional Address Book. Then simply use the Import fonction to include the desired entries in the new Address Book.

Cheers,
Robert

[admin]

I think that it would be preferable to create one big address book containing all the addressees, and also create separate (smaller) address books for each category of addressees. You could easily create a new (temporary) address book, then import the desired items from the big address book to your temporary book, then print envelopes for the addressees from your temporary address book, then (optionally) delete this temporary book.