Contacts Sidebar & List

Viewing a List of People & Families with Contact Info

Contacts Settings

Sharing a Contact List or Mailing List

The Share Contacts Window

Editing Contact Information in the List Window

How are Contacts Sorted?


Entering/Editing Contact Information

Working with Apple's Contacts Application
Marking People in the Contacts

Viewing a List of People & Families with Contact Info

A list of contacts you have entered may be shown in two different ways...

To see contacts in the List window...

To see a list of contacts in the List window, click List > Contacts (from the Navbar on the left). Or, click the List button at the bottom of the Contacts sidebar.

This will open the contact list in Reunion's List window, which offers several features. For example...

Here is an example of a contact list as it appears in the List window...

To see contacts in the Sidebar...

To see a list of contacts in the Sidebar, select Contacts from the Sidebar list on the left.

Here is the same contact list appearing in the Contacts sidebar...

Note: The Contacts sidebar/list only include people/families who have contact information entered.

Contacts Settings

To see the settings (in the sidebar or List window), click the Settings button, under the list of contacts. This opens the Contacts Settings window.

The list of people with contact information may include all people or marked people.

The list can also be limited to include only people who have data in a particular contact field; for example, a list of people who have a web page or email address. To do this, click the Include people with button in the Contacts Settings window.

After configuring the buttons in the Contacts Settings window to include the people and addresses desired in the list, click the Update button.

Sharing a Contact List or Mailing List

To share contact information (for example, to create a mailing list)...

  1. Click Contacts in the Sidebar list.
  2. To see a columnar display of contact fields before sharing a contact/mailing list, click the List button in the bottom bar.
  3. Click the Share button to open the Share Contacts window with several choices, described next.
The Share Contacts Window

Clicking the Share button in the bottom bar (under the list of contacts) opens the Share Contacts window. This window is for specifying: fields to be included in the contacts report, the field separator, the destination for the report, and other options.

Fields

In the Share Contacts window, several items can be included/excluded...

These options are set using the check-box buttons to the right of the list (see the image above).

Choosing a Field Separator

The Field separator menu button is for choosing the separator (or delimiter) that is inserted between each field in each record of the report.

Items to Include

Use the check-box button in the Include section of the Share Contacts window...

Editing Contact Information in the List Window

Before sharing a Contacts Report, it's a good idea to examine the list for accuracy. And this is easier when the contacts appear in the List window, rather than the sidebar — because it's easy to see different contact fields in columns and contact info can be edited directly in the list. So, if you're looking at contacts in the sidebar, we recommend clicking the List button under the sidebar before sharing a report of contacts.

More information about recording contact information is here.

More information about using the List window is here.

More information about editing data in the List window is here.

How Are Contacts Sorted?

The Contacts sidebar is sorted alphabetically by the surname field: first the surname of the husband and then, if no husband exists, the surname of the wife.

Contacts in the List window can be sorted by any column, ascending or descending, by clicking the column titles.