Adding Contacts to Your Address Book

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Adding Contacts From Incoming Email

When someone who sends you an email message isn’t in your Yahoo! Address Book, you’ll see this icon Add Contact icon next to the sender’s name. Click the icon, and you’ll be able to add the contact’s information.

 

Here’s How

  1. If, while reading a message in AT&T Mail, you see this icon, Add Contact icon, and you want to add the person to your Address Book, click the icon. Learn more

    The Add to Address Book page opens with the person’s name and email address already entered.

  2. Type additional information if you like, then click the Add to Address Book button.

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    Yahoo! adds the contact information to your Yahoo! Address Book and returns you to the message.

 

What’s Next

After you add the contact to your Yahoo! Address Book, you can edit the new entry to add more information as described in the Working With Contact Information.

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Words to Know

  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.

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