Create a Contact
Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Microsoft Exchange, Live@edu
You can create a contact to store the information about people you communicate with, including their e-mail address, street address, and telephone numbers.
How do I create a contact?
You can create a contact by going to your Contacts folder and clicking New.
- In the Navigation Pane, click Contacts.
- In Contacts, on the toolbar, click New.
- In the new contact window, type the information you want to include for the contact.
- Profile includes the contact's name and job information.
- Use File As to select how you want the contact to be displayed in the Contacts folder.
- The Contact section includes the contact information for the contact. This includes telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
In some boxes, you can use the drop-down lists to record multiple entries. For example, the E-mail list lets you store up to three different e-mail addresses for a contact (E-mail, E-mail 2, and E-mail 3). You can also store multiple telephone numbers in addition to the business, home, and mobile telephone numbers. - Use the Addresses section to store the business, home, and other physical addresses for a contact. You can also designate which address to use as the default mailing address by clicking Mailing Address and selecting the address that you want from the list.
- The Details section is where you can add attachments, for example, a Word document or notes about the contact.
- Click Save and Close or press CTRL+S before closing the contact form browser window.
You can create a contact from the information in the From or To fields in a message.
- Go to a message in any folder in your mailbox.
- Right-click on the name or e-mail address you want to add to your contacts, and then click Add to Contacts.
- A new Contact form will open with the display name and e-mail address already added.
- Add any other information you want, and then click Save and Close.
What else do I need to know?
The following options are available on the toolbar when you open or create a contact.
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Save and Close |
Saves the contact information and closes the contact form browser window. |
Opens a new message form with the contact listed on the To line. |
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Deletes the contact. |
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Attaches a file to the contact. For more information about how to attach files, see Working with Attachments. |
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Sets a reminder flag for the contact. For more information about flags, see Flags and Reminders. |
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Assigns a category to the contact. For more information about Categories, see Apply a Category. |
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