Creating Groups of Contacts (Categories)
| Introducing Categories | Adding a Category | Adding Contacts | Viewing a Category | Deleting a Category |
Introducing Categories
Do you often send email to a group of contacts? Do you send email to that same group of contacts on a regular basis? If you answered yes to these questions, then you might want to group these contacts into a category so that you can easily send emails to the same group over and over. A category is a list (small or large) of contacts from your Yahoo! Address Book. Use categories to:
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Send the same email to more than one person at the same time. The Working With Categories tutorial shows you how.
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Organize contacts for easier viewing. This tutorial shows you how to create populate categories.
The Yahoo! Address Book includes several predefined categories:
- All: contains all the contacts in your Address Book whether or not they are assigned to other categories.
- Unfiled: contains the contacts in your Address Book that you have not assigned to another category.
- Trash: temporarily contains deleted contacts before they are permanently removed from your Address Book. Contacts in this category are not in your All or Unfiled category.
Note: You can’t send email to the Yahoo!-defined categories. Of course you can send emails to the contacts listed in these categories.
Each contact is automatically included in the All category. You can also add a contact in as many of your own categories as you like, so a Work contact can also be a Friends contact. You can have up to 1000 categories in your Yahoo! Address Book each containing up to 100 contacts, so don’t be stingy.
What’s Next
This tutorial shows you how to create categories and how to add contacts to your categories. The Working With Categories tutorial shows how you can use categories, including how to send an email to a category.
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.