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 (and only 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 displaying a list of valid contacts.
Select a contact, then click the OK button.
The Add to Messenger List window updates to display the ID or email address 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
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 conversation window.
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.
- Messenger List: the main part of the Contact List in Yahoo! Messenger. The Messenger List includes the contacts with whom you communicate most often.
- Yahoo! ID: the name by which a person is known to all Yahoo! networks.