Working With Contact Information
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Requesting a Contact’s Details
You can ask a contact to send her details to you. When you receive the details, you can add the information to your Yahoo! Contacts through Messenger.
Note: You can’t share contact details with contacts outside the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts and your Pingbox™ visitors.
Here’s How
In the Messenger window, select Request Contact Details from the Actions menu.
The Request Contact Details window opens.
In the request window, select one or more contacts, then click the OK button.
Messenger sends the request to each contact and opens a conversation window for each with an inline notification letting you know that you’ve made your request.
Tip: If you’re requesting details from just one person, select the name in your Contact List, then select the menu option. Messenger bypasses the Request Contact Details window and immediately sends the request to your contact.
If your contact accepts your request, your conversation window displays a notification letting you know that the contact has sent her details. You can accept or decline the details.
In the notification of the conversation window, click Accept.
Tip: You may receive information from your contact that conflicts with what you already have in your address book. For example, the work phone number you have may be different from the one sent by your contact. Before updating your address book with the contact’s details, Messenger opens the Resolve Contact Detail Conflicts window so that you can select the information you want to save in your address book.
After accepting the details, the conversation window displays a notification letting you know that the details have been added to your address book.
If you want to see what information was added to your address book, click View Contact Details in the notification.
The Contact Details window opens displaying the information for this contact.
What’s Next
When you receive a request for your details, the conversation window displays a notification of the request.
You can send your details or decline the request. When you click Select Details to Send, the Send My Contact Details window opens allowing you to select the details you want to send to the contact. You can even edit them before sending.
When you finish selecting details, Messenger sends them to the requestor and displays a notification in your 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.
- Pingbox: an embedded box on a Web page where visitors to the page can send you instant messages and which lists visitors on your Messenger List.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.