At 13:17 -0600 3/10/07, Chuck Pelto wrote: >How about the verbiage for getting the home e-mail? Do you mean value of first email of person "xxx" whose label is "home" ? I don't find that too horrendous given the fact that a person's email 1 might be work or home or other. > >For instance.... > >tell application "Address Book" > > get name of people whose property street contains "Greenwood" > >end tell > >Doesn't work. Why should it? It's not AppleScript and street is not a property of people anyway. get people whose address 1's street contains "m" or get the nickname of every person where the street in its address 1 contains "St." and address 1's label is "home" >My problem is that whatever variation on verbiage I write to find or >replace data doesn't work. > >I need examples of what DOES work. Well now you have three examples. If you think they're verbiage then it's AppleScript verbiage and not Address Book opacity. JD