Christmas Card List Geekery

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In addition to trying to finish my next screencast, I’ve been helping my wife get our Christmas cards done. One such task has been getting the address list together. For this I generally use Address Book. This year my wife had a word table with some new addresses and friends for inclusion on “the list.” In order to make getting this data into AddressBook, I used Pages to convert the table to text and then I emailed the the list to myself in the body of an email. I then used Mail.App’s quick entry to add them into the AddressBook database.

I then simply went through and added an entry for “Holiday Card” on all of our friends and family.

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Once that was done, I made a smart group that included a search for Holiday Card.

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Finally, I set it up to print on Avery labels and Christmas was saved.

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5 Comments Christmas Card List Geekery

  1. shermitty@yahoo.com

    Great info! Now, is there a way to customize what prints on the address label? I’d like to send some out as “The Smith Family” and others as “Mr. John Smith”. Suggestions?

    Reply
  2. shermitty@yahoo.com

    Great info! Now, is there a way to customize what prints on the address label? I’d like to send some out as “The Smith Family” and others as “Mr. John Smith”. Suggestions?

    Reply
  3. shermitty@yahoo.com

    Great info! Now, is there a way to customize what prints on the address label? I’d like to send some out as “The Smith Family” and others as “Mr. John Smith”. Suggestions?

    Reply
  4. shermitty@yahoo.com

    Great info! Now, is there a way to customize what prints on the address label? I’d like to send some out as “The Smith Family” and others as “Mr. John Smith”. Suggestions?

    Reply
  5. shermitty@yahoo.com

    Great info! Now, is there a way to customize what prints on the address label? I’d like to send some out as “The Smith Family” and others as “Mr. John Smith”. Suggestions?

    Reply

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