Outlook Contacts Creating a New Contact
Contacts in Outlook make it easy to send an email to one person, or to a group of people. The Contact form allows you to put in the person's name, email address for home and work, phone numbers for home, work and mobile, home and business address, FAX, their photo, and even notes. You can put as little or as much information about a person as you wish, and you can edit that information if the person moves, gets a new email address or phone number. Contacts can be grouped for mass emailings. For example, you might put all of your family member contacts into a group titled "Family." When you want to send your entire family an email, type the group name in the "To" box of a new email form. Practice the following to create and save single contacts. When you are finished, move to the link at the bottom of this page titled "BACK" to go to the "Outlook Lessons" page.
1. Open Outlook.
2. Press and hold down the Control key and hit the number 3 (above the alphabet keys).
3. Release the keys.
4. Make sure your view is for something like "List."
5. Press and hold down the Control key and hit the letter n
6. Release the keys and you are in the "Full Name" edit box.
7. Type the person's first name followed by a space and then their last name.
8. Tab through and fill out the Contact form. Be aware that when you hear some of the items such as "E-mail, you are on a button. Tab a little further and you are in the edit box for email.
9. For each button you hear "E-mail, Business, Home, Business FAX, Mobile, and Business, there will be a second button to the right which will allow you to create multiple items for that button. After this second button is the edit box for that item.
10. When you are finished tabbing and filling in information, press and hold down the Alt key and hit the letter s to save and close the Contact.
11. Make as many Contacts as you can think of.
NOTE: From any Outlook area you can press Control Shift c to bring up a new contact form.