Manually Add a Contact to a Windows Live Mail Address Book

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Contacts in any e-mail program make it easy to keep track of recipients and easily send out e-mail messages to multiple people at the same time. Windows Live mail allows you to add contacts to a number of categories to keep them organized. Learn how to manually add a contact to your list of Windows Live Mail contacts.

Several options in Windows Live Mail make it easy to create and maintain an up-to-date contacts list. One option lets you automatically add contacts to your address book when you reply to them a certain number of times. However, sometimes you just want to add a contact to your address book manually rather than wait until you reply to an e-mail message.

Manually adding contacts to an address has several advantages. The main advantage is that you can be assured that the information for the contact includes all the information you want to include.

Maybe you want to include the contact’s place of employment or maybe all you care about is the recipient’s e-mail address. Whatever you prefer, you can quickly add a contact manually to Windows Live Mail and avoid having to wait for the application to do it for you.

Open up Windows Live Mail and click on theContactfolder in the lower left hand corner of the application. Note that theRibbonchanges to show you options available for managing contacts.

On the left side of theRibbon, locate a section labeledNewand click on theContactbutton.

This opens theAdd a Contactwindow. You should note a few things about this window. First, the default method for adding a new contact to the address book is theQuick Add. This method lets you add theFirst Name,Last Name,Personal E-mail,Home Phone, andCompanyof your new contact. It is a generic template for quickly adding a contact.

Second, there are three other categories you can use to add your contact. The most general is theContactcategory. This category offers more fields such asWork Phone,Mobile Phone, andOther E-Mail.

The remaining two categories,PersonalandWork, show only those fields that are likely to be included for a contact in those categories. For example, theWorkcategory includes fields not found in thePersonalcategory such asCompanyandJob TitlewhilePersonalincludesBirthdayandAnniversaryfields. When you are done adding the contact, click theAdd Contactbutton and your new contact is immediately added to your Windows Live Mail address book.

Windows Live Mail has a built-in feature that allows you to manually add contacts to an address book.Quick Addlets you add the most basic information about a new contact whileContact,Personal, andWorkcategories offer you more fields that are related to those types of contacts. In this way, you can manually add contacts and place them into categories for easier sorting and look up.

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Manually Add a Contact to a Windows Live Mail Address Book