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How to Use Contacts

As the number of people you communicate with increases, it gets more and more difficult to keep track of all of their details. To help with this, almost all email clients provide the ability to maintain a contact list or address book.

How to Add a Contact

If you click on the "Contacts" button in the shortcuts area underneath the folder pane, and then click on the "New" button in the top left-hand corner, you'll see a form which allows you to fill in the name, email address and other information associated with your contact.

The menu on the left-hand side of this form contains sections which allow you to enter additional information if you want. When you click "Add to contacts", the new entry gets added.

Alternatively, when you read email from somebody that is not already a contact, you can click on the "Add to contacts" link in the message header next to the sender's email address, which will bring you to the same form, and attempt to auto-populate some of the fields.

You can also create groups within your contacts (using the "Create a new group" button in the bottom left-hand corner of the contacts window), which allows you to create a distribution list for sending email to multiple people without having to enter each recipient separately.

How to Send Email to a Contact

When you want to send an email, instead of typing the recipient's email address into the "To" field, you can now select that person from your contact list, and their email address will automatically be added. If you click on the address book button next to the "To" field, or the equivalent "Cc" and "Bcc" ones, you'll be able to select the appropriate person from your contact list.

Just select the contact you want to add, and then click the "To ->", "Cc ->" or "Bcc ->" button to add them to the desired field. You'll notice that what's displayed is the name you entered for the contact rather than their email address, because this is typically a more meaningful way to identify them.

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