Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office XP

Managing Your List of Contacts

Outlook's Contacts folder serves a dual purpose: For Internet mail users, it's the primary storage location for e-mail addresses. It's also a useful place to store names, addresses, phone numbers, and other important information about friends, family members, and business associates. If you use the Contacts folder only to manage e-mail addresses and occasionally print an address book, it will certainly be worth the minimal effort it takes to enter and update contact information. But if you're willing to learn Outlook's secrets, you can make it do much more. For example, you can

• Quickly add addresses to letters and envelopes you create with Word. After you master the quirks of the Outlook Address Book, you can configure ...