Adding Contacts to Your Address Book
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November 30, 2009 9:53 AM
You create your Web-Based Email Address Book by adding contacts to it. When you add a contact, you can enter information about that contact, such as the contact's email address and phone number. You can enter as much or as little about the contact as you want.
To Add a Contact to Your Address Book
- From the Address Book menu, click Contacts.
- Click the Add Contact icon.
NOTE: All fields are optional, but you should enter information in the Nickname, First Name, Last Name, or Email field so that you can identify the contact in the Address Book.
- Complete any of the following:
- First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name
- The contact's first, middle, and last name.
- Display Name
- The name you want to display when you add a contact to an email message.
- Nickname
- The nickname you want to associate with the contact.
- Email Address
- The contact's email address.
- Add as Preferred Sender
- Specifies the contact as a preferred sender and allows you to select an icon to associate with email messages sent from the contact.
- Distribution Lists Contact Belongs In
- Allows you to add the contact to an existing distribution list.
- Go to the Personal tab.
- Home Phone and Cell Phone
- The contact's home and cell phone numbers.
- Text Message Phone
- The contact's cell phone number and their phone service carrier.
- Home Address
- The contact's home address.
- Work Phone
- The contact's work phone number.
- Fax
- The contact's fax number.
- Work Address
- The contacts work address.
- Go to the Custom tab.
- ICQ Number, AIM Address, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger
- The contact's user name or number for those programs.
- Custom 1, 2, 3, 4
- Allows you to click Rename to name your own field and enter custom information you want to include.
- Notes
- Additional notes you want to include.
- Click OK.