


Name the group something like Holiday Cards. In Contacts, choose File > New Group to create an empty group into which you can collect your card recipients.You can even add a personal touch by including a graphic and using a custom color and font choice. Although many people don’t realize this, it’s easy to print mailing labels on standard label stock using the Contacts app on the Mac. I know this wasn't as easy as doing it in Word, but if you don't have Word and don't want to buy extra software, this is how to do it with a standard installation of Mac OS 10.5.If mailing your holiday cards (which you printed from Photos, right?) is made harder by having to write addresses on envelopes, you can skip the handwriting step this year with mailing labels. After all that, I deleted the extra 29 copies of the contact. That way, I can print out these return address labels any time. In order to save myself the trouble of having to do all this over again, I selected Save to PDF from the PDF drop-down menu at the bottom left corner. Then I clicked on the Layout tab and selected Avery standard and 8160. In the Address Book area of the print dialog, I selected "Mailing Labels" from the Style pull-down menu.

I made sure to check the box "apply to all." I then selected these 30 contact cards (all of the same contact), and selected "File / Print" from the menu bar. I then imported the 29 vCards back into Address Book, but I chose "Keep Both" when the Duplicates warning asked me what I wanted to do.

I selected the resulting vCard on my desktop, clicked the right mouse button (CTRL+mouse-click if you have a one-button mouse) to get the context menu, and selected "Duplicate." I duplicated this one vCard 28 times. What I did was select the contact I wanted to use to print return address labels - the same address printed on a page of 30 Avery labels (8160) - and drag it to the desktop. I figured out a way to do this using Address Book without resorting to Word or Print Shop.
