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# Automating Address Book tasks with AppleScript

Address Book includes AppleScript terms that let you automate tasks using scripts. You can use scripts to control how address cards are sorted, select menu items, and set properties of Address Book.

To see the Address Book terms and write scripts, you can use Script Editor, included with Mac OS X. To learn more about AppleScript, AppleScript terms, and Script Editor, see AppleScript Help.

## To open Script Editor and view Address Book's AppleScript dictionary:

1. In the Finder, navigate to the Applications/AppleScript folder so that you can see the icon for the Script Editor application.
2. Open another Finder window and navigate to the Applications folder so that you can see the icon for the Address Book application.
3. Drag the Address Book icon onto the Script Editor icon.

An AppleScript script for importing contact information from Entourage, Outlook Express, Palm Desktop, Eudora, Claris Emailer, and Netscape can be found in the Address Book Scripts (Library/Scripts/Address Book Scripts/).

To learn more about AppleScript and how to use scripting terms, see AppleScript Help or go to the AppleScript website.

## See also

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