Managing Contacts and Groups

As your Contacts list grows, you may want to organize your contacts into groups or remove the ones you no longer use. Windows Live Messenger makes it easy to organize them into predefined groups and groups that you create. Windows Live Messenger comes with four predefined groups by default: Coworkers, Family, Friends, and Other Contacts. Once you have organized your groups, you can select or clear contact check boxes to modify it. You can use the Up and Down buttons next to the group name to hide and display contacts in a group.

Create a Contacts Group

Click the Contacts menu, and then click Create a group.

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Right-click a group, and then click Create new group.

Type a name for the new group.

Select the contacts or type the e-mail addresses you want to add to the group.

Click Save.

Modify Contacts and Contact Groups

• Edit Contact. Right-click the contact, click Edit contact, make changes, and then click Save.

• Edit Contact Group. Right-click the contact group, click Edit group, select or clear contact check boxes, and then click Save.

• Rename Contact Group. Right-click the contact group, click Rename group, type a name, and then press Enter.

• Delete Contact Group. Right-click the contact group, click Delete group, and then click Yes.