Adding Contacts to Your Messenger List
| Overview | A Safe Environment | Importing Contacts | Using the Add to Messenger List Window | Adding From Your Address Book | Adding From an Instant Message |
Adding a Contact From Your Address Book
Importing Contacts shows you how to add multiple contacts to your Messenger List from your Yahoo! Contacts. You can also add contacts, one at a time, from your address book using the Add to Messenger List window. When you choose this option, Messenger searches your address book and returns a list of people who aren’t on your Messenger List. You can then select the one you want to add to your list.
Here’s How
Open the Add to Messenger List window. (Remind me how.)
In the Add Messenger List window, click the Choose a Contact from Your Address Book button.
The Choose a Contact from Your Address Book window opens.
In the Choose a Contact window, select a contact with a Yahoo! ID to add to your Messenger List, then click the OK button.
Note: You can select only one contact at a time.
Tip: You can select a person who has an email address and invite them to join you in using Messenger as described in the Inviting Friends to Use Messenger tutorial.
The Add to Messenger List window updates to display the name of the person you selected from your address book.
Complete the remaining displays of the Add window as described in Using the Add to Messenger List Window.
What’s Next
You can also add a contact to your Messenger List directly from your Yahoo! Contacts. See the Related Tutorials for more information.
Anyone who knows your Yahoo! ID can send you an instant message without being listed on your Messenger List. You can add this person to your list from the IM window.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Messenger List: a list of coworkers, friends, family, and associates who also use Messenger.
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to the Yahoo! network.