Adding a Contact to Windows Contacts

A contact is a person or company that you communicate with. One contact can often have several mailing addresses, phone numbers, or e-mail addresses. You can store this information in Windows Contacts (New!) along with other detailed information, such as job title, cell phone number, and Web page addresses. You can organize your contacts into folders or into contact groups, which are groups of related people with whom you communicate regularly.

Add or Edit a Contact

Click the Contacts button on the toolbar.

• You can also click the Start button, point to All Programs, and then click Windows Contacts.

Click the New Contact button on the toolbar to create a new contact or select a contact, and then click Edit on the toolbar to edit one.

Enter the contact’s name.

Enter the e-mail address.

Click Add.

Click the other available tabs to enter additional information.

Click OK.

Click the Close button.

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Did You Know? You can add an address from an e-mail message. In the Inbox, open the message with the e-mail address you want, right-click the address, and then click Add Sender to Contacts. You can automatically add a reply address to Windows Contacts. Click the Tools menu, click Options, click the Send tab, select the Automatically put people I reply to in my Contacts list check box, and then click OK.

Create a Contact Group

Click the Contacts button on the toolbar.

Click the New Contact Group button on the toolbar.

Type a name for the new group.

Click Add to Contact Group to display your current list of contacts.

Click each member in the list of contacts you want to add. Press Ctrl to select multiple contacts.

Click Add.

Repeat this step to add more contacts.

To add a contact just to the group and not to your Contacts list, type the contact and e-mail address, and then click Create for Group Only.

To remove a contact from the group, click the contact, and then click Remove Selected Contacts.

Click OK.

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When you’re done, click the Close button.

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Did You Know? You can sort your Windows Contacts. In Windows Contacts, point to the heading by which you want to sort, click the arrow, and then click Sort. You can switch the sorting method from ascending to descending by clicking the same column heading again.

For Your Information: Printing Contacts from Windows Contacts You can print your contact information in a variety of formats, such as Memo, Business Card, and Phone List. The Memo style prints all the information you have for a contact with descriptive titles. The Business Card style prints the contact information without descriptive titles. The Phone List style prints all the phone numbers for a contact or for all your contacts. To print contact information, open Windows Contacts, select the contacts you want to print, click Print on the toolbar, select a print range, print style, and the number of copies you want to print, and then click Print in the Print dialog box.