The Address Book window, accessible from the main menu and the main window, provides basic access to your Address Book contacts. This window only displays your contact names & their associated phone numbers. The “people picker” view in this window works like the Address Book itself for limiting the contacts viewed to a specific Group or contacts that match the search criteria entered in the search field in the top right corner of the window.
Double-click on any contact in this window and it will be dialed using the current Location & Dialing Rules. Option-double-click and the selected contact will be opened in the Address Book application in edit mode. If you drag items from this window to the desktop, vCard files for the dragged contacts will be created. If you drag contacts in to the Quick Dial editor window, the dragged contacts will be appended to the end of your Quick Dial entries.
As this data is pulled directly from your Address Book data, any errors such as misspellings, out of date addresses, etc. can be corrected by editing the contact in the Address Book. Any modifications you make to your contacts in Address Book will be instantly reflected in the data displayed in this Address Book window.
