Adding contacts
When adding a contact, you can set both personal and business contact information, including multiple phone numbers, instant message accounts, email addresses, and street addresses.
When you add a new contact, they are displayed in your list of contacts with some summary contact information. The following summary information, if specified, is displayed for each contact:
Contact Name
To add a contact:
- Click
The New Contact dialog is displayed.
Note: To add a contact you must enter at least one of the following: first name, last name, or an email address.
Enter appropriate information for the contact’s personal details, email, telephone, and address.
First name:- The contacts first name.
Last name:- The contacts last name.
An email address:- The contacts email address. If you enter a date for birthday or anniversary, the date format must be the same as that specified in the settings. for more information see Locale
A phone number:-The contacts phone number. For phone numbers you can enter non-numeric characters such as hyphens and parentheses.
Personal:- You can add the contacts birthday or anniversary details here.
Important: Plus and minus icons appear beside certain fields. Plus is used to add multiple field entries. For example, you can include multiple Work Mobile numbers for a contact. Minus is used to remove multiple fields, as well as completely remove a particular type of contact information. For example, you can choose not to display any instant messaging information for a contact.
To add an image
- Click
- Browse to and select the file you want to attach.
- Click Open to attach your file.
- The image is automatically cropped to make it square. You can drag the image to change the area that is cropped. You can zoom in on the image by clicking and dragging the slider below the it.
- Click Save when finished.
The file window appears.