The Contacts component in Outlook is a complete contact management program that integrates with other Outlook components. It allows you to manage your contact list, correspond with your contacts, and track contact correspondence.

How to:

You can open the Contacts by clicking the button on the Outlook Bar:

Contacts button

Which should bring up a screen similar to the one below:

Contacts screen

To create a new contact, click on the New button:

Which should bring up this screen:

New Contact dialog box

Fill out the areas you are interested in, such as, Full Name, Company, Phone numbers, Address, and especially, E-mail.

Once you are done, click the Save and Close button:

If you are adding multiple contacts that work with the same company, first create a contact for the company as explained above. Then, instead of clicking the New button, select the Actions menu. From there, click on New Contact from Same Company.The rest is the same as just creating the Contact, Outlook just filled in the company and address for you.

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