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Create a Contact

You can easily store information about your friends, family, and colleagues, as well as send messages to them, by using the People app to create a contact for each person. Each contact can store a wide variety of information, such as a person’s first and last names, company name, e-mail address, phone number, and street address.

If you already have contacts on a social network such as Facebook or LinkedIn, you do not need to enter those contacts by hand. Instead, you can connect your social network account to your Microsoft account, as described in the next few sections.

Create a Contact

On the Start screen, tap People.

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