Managing people in your contacts list

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Create a new group

  1. Click the arrow next to New.

  2. Click New group.

  3. Enter a group name.

  4. Add members by starting to enter their name or email address. When they appear on the list, click the contact.

  5. When you've added all the members you want, click Save.

Manage a group

Groups show up alphabetically in your contact list. Select the group you want to manage, then…

  • Add or remove members by clicking Edit.

  • Delete a group by clicking Delete. Deleting a group doesn’t delete the contacts that were members.

Favorites

Favorites appear in People at the top of your contact list. To add or remove contacts in your favorites, select the contact, then click Add to favorites, or Remove from favorites.

Add a contact

When you reply to an email that includes recipients who are not in your email list, you might be prompted to add them to your contact list.

You can also manually add contacts to your contact list in People.

  1. Click New.

  2. Add contact info. If you want to add more than one email address, phone number, etc., click the icon Plus icon in that section.

  3. Click Save.

Link and unlink contacts

When the People web service finds two contacts with the same first and last name, it will link them so they appear as a single contact in your list. You can also link them using “Clean up contacts,” search and link them manually, and unlink contacts.

Link contacts with “Clean up contacts”

If you have two contacts for the same person under different names, you can link these contacts.

  1. In People, click Manage, then click Clean up contacts.

  2. Click Show details for one of the contact sets.

  3. Clear the check box next to any contact in the set you don’t want to link.

  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each contact set.

  5. Click Save and continue.

Search and link manually

You can also link contacts by searching and linking them manually.

  1. In the search field, type the name of the contact you’re looking for.

  2. In the search result, select the contacts you want to link.

  3. Click Link.

Unlink contacts

If two or more contacts have been incorrectly linked, you can unlink them.

  1. In People, select the contact.

  2. Click Links.

  3. Click the X next to any contact you want to unlink.

Edit or delete a contact

In People, select a contact, and then click Edit or Delete.

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