Chapter 17 -- Using Address Book

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Chapter 17

Address Book is a versatile tool for recording contact information. You can use it to store names, addresses, personal and business telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, information about contacts' birthdays and anniversaries, NetMeeting servers and addresses, digital IDs, freeform notes, and more. You can also use it to search for people and businesses on the Internet.

An Identity feature, new in the version of Address Book included with Microsoft Windows 2000, makes it possible for multiple users to share a common Address Book file. If you share your computer with family members, for example, each of you can keep separate sets of contact information. Shared contacts can be made accessible to all users by means of a special Shared Contacts folder.

Windows 2000 makes Address Book information available to programs that request it. Microsoft Outlook Express and the Windows 2000 Fax driver, for example, are tightly integrated with Address Book. And Outlook, the personal information manager component of Microsoft Office, can easily import records from Address Book into its own contacts database.

You'll find a menu item for Address Book in the Accessories section of your Start menu. If you're running Outlook Express, you can also open Address Book by clicking the Addresses button on the toolbar. If you're creating a new message in Outlook Express, you can open Address Book by clicking the Address Book icon on the To or Cc line of the message header.

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Regardless of how you decide to open Address Book, you can close it by simply pressing Esc.



Running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
ISBN: 1572318384
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 317

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