In Contacts, there's a list of all groups on the left. Selecting one (you don't need to interact with the table, just up/down arrow on it) will cause the list of contacts being displayed to be limited to just that group, and the search box to only search that group. To add a contact, just find it, copy it with cmd-c, find the group you want it in, and paste with cmd-v. To remove a contact, find it and hit delete. A popup will appear, asking if you want to remove the contact form its current group, or erase it entirely. > On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:59 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find groups to be rather confusing - not the concept but the practical > setup - but I admit I haven't yet concentrated on this a lot. As for > duplications, I've had this problem almost from the beginning of having an > iOS device along with my Mac. At one point I was able to straighten it out > but I have more than one device now and the problem came back. So I finally > decided just to make sure I had a backup of all contacts that I could access > without the contacts app and then I just plain deleted all my contacts from > all devices and computers and stopped that service with iCloud. Now I'm > re-entering everything on my computer and it's a pain but it's going to be > worth it because of all the duplicates and old info and partial info I'm > getting rid of. When this is done i will need to learn to monitor what is > happening and catch it before it gets to this point again. > > What I decided to do with email lists that I am subscribed to is put a name > for the list as the first name and "email list" without the quotes as the > last name. Then all my email lists should end up together under "e". > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 3, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Mary Jo Partyka <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, Cheryl, > > It’s interesting that you posted aobut having problems with Contacts since I > am also having problems. I was able to put a few groups together on the Mac > but because I haven’t done much with it in the past few months, I feel like > I’m back to square one now. I was able to send a required message to one of > my groups but had some difficulty putting new people in that group and now I > can’t even find the group. Is there an easy way to go between group lists > and contact information etc? I have been pressing vo command t and going > into each of the tables and that seems to work some of the time. But it > feels like the most unorganized ap on the computer. I also have duplications. > > Any suggestions would be helpful. > > Mary Jo Partyka > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > >> On Jan 3, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I finally got fed up with all the chaos with contacts on phone, iPad and >> computer, with lots of duplicates and outdated information still being mixed >> with the new. I felt this was way beyond the help of just merging contacts >> or deleting and adding indivicual ones as I've been trying to ignore this >> problem for quite a while. After careful backing up of all my contact >> information, I deleted contacts for all accounts on all devices and deleted >> all contacts in the application on my computer. So now I'm choosing the >> contacts I really want to keep and am adding all the information back on my >> computer first. Then I'll turn contacts back on in all accounts on devices. >> >> The one thing I am not sure of is what to do about email lists when putting >> the information in Contacts on my computer. There are fields for first and >> last name and company and a checkbox for company but an email list doesn't >> quite fit either of these choices. I hesitate to put macvisionaries, for >> example, in as a first or last name or a company but don't know if I should >> just put the email address in without a name iname; I'm pretty sure this >> will disorganize things. Is there an accepted protocol I should follow for >> this? >> >> Thanks for any help with this. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >> thrown in the trash! >> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >> His joy for my despairing tears! >> And now, every day: >> "This I call to mind, >> and therefore I have hope: >> The steadfast love of the Lord >> never ceases; >> his mercies never come to an end; >> they are new every morning; >> great is your faithfulness." >> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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