Adding a contact to the address book

There are two ways to add someone's email details to your address book:

• Click the New Contact button in the address book.
• When you read an email from you can click the Add Contact button.

To create a new contact

Suppose you have a friend called John Smith, whose email address is john.smith@myschool.sch.uk. To add his details to your address book:

1. Open the address book by clicking the Address Book tab.



2. Click the New Contact button.



3. In the First Name box type John.
4. In the Last Name box type Smith.
5. In the Name box type John Smith. This is the name that will appear in the address book Name column.
6. In the email box type john.smith@myschool.sch.uk
7. Click the OK button.

Now try adding a real email address.

Add someone's contact details from an email

When you open an email to read it you can add the senders details to your address book.

1. Open an email from your Inbox folder in order to read it.
2. Click the Add Contacts link in the email window.

   

   The Add to Contacts window opens, This lists the email addresses of the person who sent the email, and others who have been sent it.

   

3. Ensure that only the email addresses you want to save are selected - as shown by a green tick in the small box to the left of the email address. Click this box to remove the tick to indicate that the address is not selected. 
4. In the Nickname box type the name you wish to see displayed when you send an email to them.
5. Click the Add button to add the details to your address book.

Related topics:

• Deleting a contact from your address book.
• Creating a group.
• Removing a contact from a distribution list.
• Adding address book contacts to an email.