Working With Contact Information

Notes: Yahoo! Messenger and your Yahoo! Contacts are integrated and synchronized. When you delete a contact from the address book in Messenger, you’re deleting the same contact from your Yahoo! Contacts.

This task shows you how to:

• Delete one or more contacts from your Messenger List.
• Delete a contact from your address book.

Here’s How

To delete one or more contacts from your Messenger List:

1. In your Messenger List, select one or more contact names (hold down the Ctrl key while selecting multiple names), then select Delete from the Contacts menu or select Delete from the right-click menu.

   The Delete Contact window opens.

2. Confirm the deletion by clicking the Yes button.

   Tip: Check Delete From Address Book, too to remove this contact from your Yahoo! Contacts.
   
   

   Note: Deleting contacts can’t be undone.

To delete a contact from your address book:

1. In the Address Book, select a contact, then select Delete from the Contacts menu or select Delete from the right-click menu.

2. In the Delete From Address Book window, confirm the deletion by clicking the Yes button.

   

   Tip: You can also delete a contact by clicking the Delete Contact button in the Contact Details window shown in Modifying a Contact’s Details.

Back:
Viewing a Contact’s Profile

What’s Next

You can add, modify, and delete contacts at any time. Keep information up to date by requesting details from your contacts and sending your details to them.

Tips: When you delete a contact from your Messenger List and Address Book, your name isn’t removed from his or her Messenger List and Address Book if you were previously added. The contact continues to see your online status. To ensure your privacy, you can choose to ignore the contact. For more information, see the Protecting Your Privacy tutorial.