Syncing Your Yahoo! Address Book With Other Applications

Here’s How

1. If you didn’t continue to the setup process from the installation wizard, or if you want to change your settings, click the Autosync taskbar icon (found in the lower-right corner of your screen), then select Preferences from the menu.

   

   The Yahoo! Autosync Settings window opens.

   On the first page, you can choose one or more of the PIMs that Autosync should sync with your Yahoo! data.

   

2. Choose one or more PIMs, and what programs in that application should be synced with your Yahoo! data.

   • Select a PIM from the pull-down list.

     

     Note: You’ll see the Palm Desktop option only if you have the application installed on your computer.

   • Check the programs in the PIM to sync with. (By default, all of the Outlook programs are checked. You can uncheck the ones you don’t want to sync with.)

     

     Note: The Contacts program is the only option available for Outlook Express.

3. Click the Next button.

4. On the next page, select your synchronization option, then click the Next button.

   Yes, the default, allows Autosync to synchronize data automatically whenever you make a change. No, indicates that you want to run the operation manually at your discretion.

   

   Tips:
   
   If you keep Yes checked, you can still synchronize manually whenever you like.
   
   Also, if you keep Yes checked, and Autosync detects a significant change in the data, it will interrupt what you’re doing and ask if you really want to make the changes. This built-in feature takes disk failure into account and ensures that large quantities of data aren’t deleted in error.

5. Click the Finish button.

   If this is your initial setup, you aren’t quite done yet. Before Yahoo! Autosync can synchronize your data, it needs your Yahoo! ID and password so that it can access your Yahoo! accounts and sync them with your selected PIMs. This means that you don’t need be signed into any of your Yahoo! services. You can work on something else and let Autosync take care of gaining access to your account.

   Note: We store your ID and password in a secure format and will occasionally ask you to confirm the password for added security.

6. Type your Yahoo! ID (you don’t need to type @yahoo.com) and password, then click the OK button.

   

   Note: If you uncheck Remember my ID and password, you will need to provide these each time Autosync wants to sync up with your Yahoo! data...kind of defeats the automatic aspect!

   After clicking OK and if this is your initial setup, Yahoo! Autosync immediately runs its first synchronization (unless you’ve chosen to manually sync your data, in which case, you can decline this initial sync and perform it later).

Back:
Downloading and Installing

Take Me to the Yahoo! Address Book

Next:
Manually Synchronizing Your Data

What’s Next

Enabling Automatic Syncing With Outlook

If you’re syncing up with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook may ask you to type your Outlook username and password. If this happens and you want a truly automatic sync operation, you can enable auto-login on Outlook. Here’s how:

1. Open the Windows Control Panel.

2. Double-click Mail.

3. In the Mail Setup window, click Show Profiles.

4. Select Always use this profile, and select a profile from the pull-down list.

5. Click the OK button.

Changing Your ID or Password

If you want to change your ID or password, click the taskbar icon, then select Yahoo! ID and Password from the menu.