EZ Home and Office Address Book Software

EZ Address Book I bought EZ Address Book to manage my Christmas card list. I have a USB optical drive making installation easy. The fields and categories are customizable, you can add any category that meets your needs. The city and state fields enter automatically when you enter the five digit ZIP code. If you want to use the ZIP + 4, wait until the city and state fields populate before adding the +4. My Christmas card list was not in another database, I had to enter names and addresses manually. The paste feature simplified the process and reduced the potential for misspelling of names and addresses. Printing labels is easy. Select the address or addresses you want, choose the label and print. EZ Address Book also prints envelopes. We get our cards from Shutterfly, EZ Address Book allows me to customized the envelope size to match the size of the envelope from Shutterfly. EZ Address Book also prints my return address on the envelope. No more peeling and attaching labels. That will save me so much work. Editing the list is so much easier with EZ Address Book. If I need to make a change for a particular person, I simply search for the name, make the changes and save. Maintaining the data base is just as easy. I can check for duplicate names a big plus for large data bases. Best of all for me, it is a stand alone program. No subscriptions or other fees once you purchase the program. One reviewer complained the program does not print bar codes. The program does not need to. The Postal Service imprints bar codes when the mail is being processed on mail that does not have a bar code.

I purchased this on December 9th, received on the 12th, and was printing out samples to edit my Christmas labels the very next evening after work. This was well worth a few extra dollars than the cheaper programs (I did try one of the cheaper ones and it was a waste of time and money). Having been so frustrated by other programs, I value this even more, so I highly recommend it to anyone who needs something elegant and uncomplicated. Thank you Mr. Ellwood! I am the person they had in mind when writing those "For Dummies" books. I needed a little help importing data from Excel spreadsheet I had made The owner-designer of this software was available to personally guide me through the process by phone. I eventually did not need this, because I found the way to do it, but the fact that emails were exchanged, and support is freely and quickly available, is extraordinary in our less-personal culture. Upgrades are also offered free as available. The importing of old data went smoothly and the results were very clean with good formatting and printing options. Additional review after having used this over one year: I have now used this for a school database; I was able to create categories for each child by age range, so I can sort and give each teacher their own class roster. I can print out the master roster of course, and I can print the "notes" including the names of parents and any other info (who picks the child up, allergy information). The "copy" feature is great for families with several kids, eliminating the need to type out all their phone numbers and emails multiple times. I did not need fancy grids or tables such as in Excel and other software, with the hassle of formatting cells etc. The address book format is very clean and professional. Again, the service that Mr Elwood gives to this product is extraordinary; he responds right away to email contacts asking for help. Totally worth it, can't recommend this enough especially for those who, like myself, are not particularly gifted with computer skills.

I think everyone will love this software. It is easy to use. Type in a zip code and the city and state fills in automatically. The data base can be set up in multiple categories family, friends, clients, customers, whittlers, dog lovers... you name it! Then with a click of a button make mailing labels, address books, email lists whatever you want. There is a button for backing up the address book to your hard drive and/or to an SD card....your address book backup on YOUR hard drives, and there is a button to restore the data base if needed. Everything seems to be real easy to find and use. This product seems to be focused and what the customer wants, what I have wanted for a long time! It seems to be a real stable solid state product. There is one improvement they can make and that is to either make the font size larger or be able to zoom in and out so I can read the screen a little easier. The default screen font size slight small. Maybe there is a button for that but I have not found it yet. I have a big computer screen and just bring it a little closer to see what I am inputting. That is the minor reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars.

As someone who is not a computer person this was very easy to install, understand, and use, great customer service from the company and a great program to use, lots of nice options, I would definitely purchase this again,