The multipurpose AOL® Address Book makes it easy to keep track of e-mail addresses, phone numbers (home, work, cellular, fax, pager), mailing addresses (work and home), birthdays, anniversaries, even the home pages of all your friends! Here are just a few of the powerful features of your Address Book.

How-To's

• Manually Add/Edit Contact Information in Your Address Book
• Add Contact Names to Your Address Book from E-mails You Receive
• Set the Auto Add Address Feature in the AOL Address Book

Manually Add/Edit Contact Information in Your Address Book

You can add a new contact or new addresses to your Address Book by adding a new address or contact manually, adding addresses from e-mail you receive, adding a contact from your buddy list.

To manually add or edit contact information in your address book:
1. On the AOL® toolbar, click the Mail menu, then click Address Book.
2. In the Address Book window, do any one of the following:

• To add a new contact, click the Add button.
• To edit an existing contact (from whom you do not receive automatic updates), click the contact once to select it, then click the Edit button to modify the information for that contact.
• To edit a contact's Address Card (from whom you receive automatic updates), click the contact's Address Card once to select it, then click the Edit button. When the contact's Address Card appears, click Edit.

3. Type or edit the information under the Contact, Home, Work, or the Details tabs.
4. When you have finished, click the Save button.
5. Click the X button to close all open windows.

Notes:

• For Home Page, type the page's Web address (e.g., http://www.aol.com).
• In the Address Book's contact list, contacts from whom you receive automatic updates are identified by a special icon to distinguish them from contacts from whom you do not receive automatic updates.
• If you receive updates to a contact's Address Card, changes you make to that contact's Address Card may be overwritten if the contact changes any of the information that you have edited. If you've canceled updates to someone's Address Card, changes you make to their Address Card are not overwritten.
• Use the Category list to assign this contact to a category. If you store many contacts in your Address Book, the Category feature helps you quickly sort your entries by allowing you to display only the entries assigned to a specific category, such as Friends or Family.
• A new contact is automatically added to your Address Book when you send an e-mail message to someone who's not in your Address Book. (You can change this setting by changing your Address Book settings).

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Add Contact Names to Your Address Book from E-mails You Receive

You can add e-mail addresses to your Address Book directly from the e-mail you receive, you can create group mailing lists for your private use, or you can share with everyone on the mailing list at AOL Groups@AOL.com.

To add contact names to your Address Book from e-mail you receive:
1. Open the e-mail containing the e-mail address(es) you want to add.
2. Right click the e-mail address, select Add to Address Book, then click the Save button.
3. Repeat steps 1-2 for each address you'd like to add.
4. Click the X button to close all open windows.

Notes:

• If you want to add the address of the e-mail sender only, open the e-mail and click Add Address on the right side of the e-mail form.
• To create a group listing, select the names you want added together as a group, and hold the Ctrl key down on your keyboard as you click Add Address button. This can be done only for a group of e-mail addresses that appear in the same address field (For example, To or CC).

To add a buddy to your Address Book from the Buddy List® feature:
Right-Click a screen name from your Buddy List window, select Add to my Address Book, then click the Save button.

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Set the Auto Add Address Feature in the AOL Address Book

Addresses you have stored in your Address Book (or added to your Buddy List) are automatically filled in as you address e-mail or instant messages.

To set the Auto Add Address feature in the AOL Address Book:
1. On the AOL toolbar, click the Mail menu, then click Address Book.
2. Click the Address Book Options drop-down menu, then click Address Book Settings.
3. Click the Automatically add e-mail addresses to my Address Book. box to place a check mark in it to enable the option. If you want to disable it, click the check box to clear it, then click the Save button.
4. Click the X button to close all open windows.

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