Chapter 2: Maintaining the Contacts Folder

In This Chapter

arrow.png Recording information about a new contact

arrow.png Creating a contact group

arrow.png Locating a contact in the Contacts folder

arrow.png Printing contact information in the Contacts folder

In pathology (the study of diseases and how they’re transmitted) a contact is a person who passes on a communicable disease, but in Outlook, a contact is someone about whom you keep information. Information about contacts is kept in the Contacts folder. This folder is a super-powered address book. It has places for storing people’s names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, Web pages, pager numbers, birthdays, anniversaries, nicknames, and other stuff besides. When you address an e-mail address, you can get it straight from the Contacts folder to be sure that the address is entered correctly.

This short but happy chapter explains how to maintain a tried-and-true Contacts folder, enter information about people in the folder, create contact groups to make sending the same message to many people easier, find a missing contact, and print the information in the ...

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