AddressBook.app vs. Entourage 2008 Address Book (sync and Spanning Tools)

[Fred J. Heumann]

Actually, Address Book does have a Middle Name field.  Go to the CARD menu
and then to "Add Field..." where you'll find a number of things you can add,
including Middle Name, Nickname, Suffix and 13 others.

Although this is an Entourage group (and I use both), I've also discovered
that you can customize each "card" to have different international address
formats.  Click on the "Edit" button, then click on the title field (work or
home or...) and then choose "Change Address Format" and choose the national
format you need.  Really helps keep the different addresses straight.

I sync between Address Book, Entourage, and Missing Sync for Palm OS--so I
have quite a few sync issues trying to keep things straight!

Fred Heumann


On 10/11/09 3:26 PM, "Jim Robertson" <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:


> 2. Neither AddressBook.app nor Entourage's Address Book have "middle name"

> fields. When I enter middle names or initials, or FirstInitial MiddleName

> type addresses, I put all this data in the First Name field in Entourage.

> Spanning Tools reports the presence of a space in the middle name field. I'm

> surprised that neither of these contacts databases store middle name

> information in a separate field.