Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Working with Contacts

You can do much more with your Outlook 2007 contacts list than just view address and phone information. Outlook 2007 provides a set of tools that make it easy to phone, write, e-mail, or communicate with contacts in other ways. This section explains these tools.

Associating a Contact with Other Items and Documents

As you work with contacts, it’s useful to have e-mail messages, appointments, tasks, documents, or other items related to the contact at your fingertips. You can relate items to a contact by inserting one Outlook 2007 item in another. For example, if you create a task to call several of your contacts, you can use the Attach Items button on the Insert tab to insert those contacts in the task:

1. With the task open, click ...