Adding Your Contacts

Your Contacts folder contains information about the people you communicate with. You use your Contacts list to quickly enter an e-mail address, look up a business or home address, jump to a Web site, place a phone call, and so on. You can even add an identifying picture to personalize the contact information. Each contact is contained in its own file, so you can access the contact information in multiple programs or directly from the Contacts folder.

Create a New Contact

In Windows Mail, click the Contacts button to display the Contacts folder.

Click New Contact to display the Properties dialog box.

On the various tabs of the Properties dialog box, enter the information you want to record. You can include as much or little as you want, but you'll need a unique name and an e-mail address if you intend to send e-mail to that contact.

To include an identifying picture, click here, choose Change Picture from the menu that appears, and use the Open dialog box to locate and select the picture you want. Click Open.

Click OK.

Close the Contacts folder when you've finished.

Tip

You can also open the Contacts folder by clicking the Start button, typing contact in the Search box, and clicking Windows Contacts on the Start menu.

Add an Address from a Message

In the Windows Mail Inbox, right-click the message.

Choose Add Sender To Contacts from the shortcut menu. If the command is grayed (unavailable), connect to the Internet or to your mail server, click the message to download it, and then right-click it and choose the command again.

If you want to add the contact information for someone listed in the CC line of the message, double-click the message to open it in a separate window, and then right-click the name you want to add.

Tip

To automatically add to your Contacts folder the addresses of all the people whose messages you reply to, choose Options from the Tools menu, and, on the Send tab, select the Automatically Put People I Reply To In My Contacts List check box.