Your Family Household Address Book

[Mrs. Muddled]

My 9" x 7" looseleaf style address book is falling apart and has a million pencilled in changes in it. I don't have the program that it was originally made for me on. It's gotta go.

 

I have most of the names and addresses up do date on XL and I still remember how to make changes to that spreadsheet.

 

Unfortunately I haven't used XL for years and can't remember much about using the program efficiently to actually "do" things with it.

 

I'm wondering how the rest of you have set up your household address books so that they are easy to keep up to date and print out into a small 9" x 7" binder.

[TCH-Bruce]

Well, I don't use paper and pencil for mine. I have a Palm OS PDA which has a desktop companion.

[Mrs. Muddled]

Well, I don't use paper and pencil for mine. I have a Palm OS PDA which has a desktop companion.

So I guess that "desktop companion" prints out a decent sized list you can leave out for the family?

 

Many years ago when Casio first came out with little 3 x 5" gizmos that had mini keyboards and screens ... I kept memos and address books, calendars ... it was just the neatest little thing. I could type a zillion miles a minute with my thumbs, take notes at meetings, back stuff up on my computer and print it out, you name it. Loved that thing. It finally died of old age. I've never made the switch to the world of the Blackberry and things of that ilk. I bought something like a Blackberry a few years ago and found it so much more convoluted than the ol' Casio that I took it back.

[TCH-Bruce]

Here is a free Address book program. Be careful, there is a freeware and shareware version of this program.

 

And yes, my desktop program will print a list as well as export it which I don't do since it's MY address book.