microsoft windows contact

Creating Contacts





Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Microsoft Exchange, Live @ edu

Recent changes to the topic: 2011-11-23

You can create contacts to store information about the users who communicate with you, including your e-mail address, home address, and phone number.

How do I create a contact?
You can create a contact by opening your Contacts folder and clicking New.

In the Navigation Pane, click Contacts contact.
In Contacts, in the toolbar, click New.
In the new contact window, type the information that will be included on the contact.
Profiles include contact names and job information.
Use Save As to select the desired contacts view in the Contacts folder.
The Contacts section includes contact information for contacts. Such information includes phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
In certain boxes, you can use the drop-down list to save multiple entries. For example, the E-mail list can be used to store up to 3 different e-mail addresses for contacts (E-mail, E-mail 2, and E-mail 3). You can also store multiple phone numbers in addition to work phone numbers, home, and mobile phone.
Use the Address section to save your work address, home, and other postal address for contacts. You can also specify an address to use as your default postal address by clicking Post Address, then selecting the desired address from the list.
The Details section can be used to add attachments, for example, Word documents or contacts notes.
Click Save and Close or press CTRL + S before closing the browser window of the contact form.
You can create contacts from information in the From or To field of messages.

Open a message in any folder in your voicemail.
Right-click on the name or e-mail address you want to add to the contact, then click Add to Contacts.
The new Contact Form will open with the name and e-mail address already added.
Add any other information you want, then click Save and Close.
What else to know?

The following options are available in the toolbar when you open or create contacts.

Button Description
Save and Close

Save contact information, then close the browser window of the contact form.

create a message to the contact
Open a new message form with contacts listed on the To line.

Delete
Delete a contact.

attachment icon
Attach a file to a contact. For more information about attaching files, see Handle Attachments.

sign
Set alert alerts for contacts. For more about signs, see Alerts and Reminders.

Category
Assign a category to a contact. For more about Category, see Apply a Category.