Show contacts not in a particular group in Address Book
Aug 22, '07 07:30:02AM • Contributed by: cdfmrl
Aug 22, '07 07:30:02AM • Contributed by: cdfmrl
This hint shows you how to find all contacts not in a particular Address Book group or Smart Group, and can be extended to arbitrary combinations of groups. It does not allow for live updating. (This older hint does something similar, but using AppleScript.)
The key is that once a selection of a number of contacts is made, Address Book maintains the selection even when you view another group. For example, say you have a group called Phone, synchronized to your cell phone, and you want to create a group of people not in the group, called not Phone. Here's what you'd do:
If you find this helpful, you should also read the Show all groups associated with a given contact hint, and er3l's comment below it regarding a "sticky" Option key.
The key is that once a selection of a number of contacts is made, Address Book maintains the selection even when you view another group. For example, say you have a group called Phone, synchronized to your cell phone, and you want to create a group of people not in the group, called not Phone. Here's what you'd do:
- Create an empty group named not Phone.
- Select all of your contacts and add them to this group.
- Click on the Phone group and select all of its contacts. (They may already be selected).
- Click on the not Phone group. You should notice that only the members of the Phone group are selected!
- Press Tab once to switch focus to the Name column.
- Hit Delete, then click the Remove from Group button in order to remove them from the group.
If you find this helpful, you should also read the Show all groups associated with a given contact hint, and er3l's comment below it regarding a "sticky" Option key.
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