Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Create a Contact

Outlook 2007’s Contacts component stores information about people — phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, Web site addresses, personal information, notes, even photos.

You are not required to enter all this information for a contact. To create a contact entry, only a name is required. Adding more information, however, better enables you to keep track of your contacts.

Create a Contact

1.	If Contacts is not currently open, click the Contacts button in the navigation pane. Outlook switches to Contacts.
2.	Click the New button. A Contact window opens. [View full size image]
3.	Type your contact’s name, and, optionally, his or her company name and job title.
4.	Type your contact’s e-mail address. You can enter as many as three e-mail addresses for a contact. To enter the second or third addresses, click next to the E-mail field, choose E-mail 2 or E-mail 3, and type the additional address.
5.	In the Display As box, type the contact’s name as you want it to appear in the To line of an e-mail message.
6.	If applicable, type your contact’s Web page ...