Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual

People

The People app is Windows 8’s address book. It’s a centralized database of everybody in your social circles: their email and mailing addresses, Twitter and Facebook handles, phone numbers, and so on (Figure 4-29).

Figure 4-29. The Home screen is your dashboard for the latest updates from Facebook and Twitter; quick access to the phone numbers and email addresses of your favorites; and ways to look somebody up, either by searching or by scrolling through an alphabetical list. Save yourself some time, in that case, using the first-letter index.

But it’s more than that. It’s also where you can see what your friends are saying on Twitter and Facebook.

The Home screen offers several elements, all important; see Figure 4-29. (At any time, you can return to this Home screen by pressing the Home key—or by opening the App bar and selecting the Home tile at the top of the screen.)

Tip

This app has many screens that go many layers deep. Most of the time, you can find your way back by tapping the at the top left of the screen. But there’s also a Home button hiding at the left side of the App bar. Whenever you’re feeling navigationally woozy, swipe up from the bottom of the screen (or press +Z) ...