When I access the address book, how can I copy an address without having to open the person's info in the edit window?
When I find a person's address in the address book and highlight their name in one pane, in the lower pane their info shows up. Unfortunately, highlighting the information I want is disabled. So, I open their info in the edit window, and then click on the appropriate tab.
Getting a single piece of information is not so inconvenient, but when you're putting together lists it is rather onerous to do it that way.
Being able to highlight and copy off the address book panes would be cool. Thanks
Opaite Mbohovái (4)
The dearth of answers would indicate you can not.
I wasn't asking whether it's possible. I know it's not. I'm indicating it would be a good feature to be able to highlight text and copy it right from the pane rather than having to open the edit window for each address. Apparently there is no interest at Mozilla to enable this capability.
Then why not file a bug requesting enhancement of the program, instead of making a support request?
In an earlier communication, I had said that this was possible, at least with TB on Windows, but I realize now that it's only possible when a certain add-on is enabled: MoreFunctionsForAddressBook
http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html
Install the add-on, and see if you can now highlight info in the Contact Pane by dragging the cursor. Ctrl-C (or the Mac equivalent) to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard.
You may notice that right-clicking an address in the Contact Pane now shows a Copy command, but a bug in the add-on prevents this option from being active.