Windows 8 Bible

Wrap-Up

Names and addresses are easy to manage in Windows 8, thanks to the Contacts folder. Here’s a summary of all the things you can do:

• To view contacts, open your Contacts folder.
• To create shortcuts to your Contacts folder, first open Windows Explorer. Click the arrow to the left of Libraries in the breadcrumb and choose your username. Then drag the Contacts folder to the Favorites branch in the Navigation pane, or to the desktop, depending on where you want to place shortcuts.
• To create a new contact, click the New Contact toolbar button in your Contacts folder.
• To open or change a contact’s information, open the contact icon.
• To identify a contact as yourself, right-click your own contact icon and choose Set As My Contact.
• To create a mailing list, click New Contact Group in the toolbar.
• To send an e-mail to a contact group, right-click the group icon and choose Action Send E-mail. Or from a new message or forwarded message, click To in the address field and choose the group as the recipient.
• To print contacts, click the Print toolbar button.
• Click Import or Export on the toolbar to import contacts from an external source, or copy contacts to an external file.
• To quickly find a contact without opening your Contacts folder, type a few characters of the name in the Search Contacts box.