Getting Started With Yahoo! Contacts

What Is Yahoo! Contacts?

Yahoo! Contacts is an online contact manager that helps you organize and communicate with the people in your life. It’s similar to a paper or desktop address book but has lots more features and functions. Use it to store all your contact information about individuals and companies. Because the contacts list is online, you can access it with an Internet connection from anywhere in the world.

Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Toolbar, and Yahoo! Greetings all use the contact information in your Contacts list, so you can access your contact information from any of these applications.

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Here’s How

1. In a browser, go to mail.yahoo.com, and sign in.

2. Open Yahoo! Contacts by clicking Contacts on the left navigation bar.

   

   A list of your contacts appears on the left side of the Contacts tab.

   Tip: If you’re signed in to Chat, you’ll see available (), busy (), idle (), and unavailable () icons next to the names of your online contacts.

3. Click a name on the list to display that contact’s information on the right side of the tab.

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   The Contacts tab displays all of the contact information you have for the selected contact.

4. To change the sort order of your contacts list from alphabetical to reverse alphabetical, click the small arrow at the top of the list.

   

5. To have your contacts listed in alphabetical order by last name, rather than the default first name, click the icon next to Name.

   

   Note: It’s not possible to permanently change to default sorting for contacts in Yahoo! Mail.

 

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What’s Next

To get started with Yahoo! Contacts, add some contacts.