How to Manage an Address List

Use your email account to create a free, simple address list.

An address list saved on your email account is beneficial in keeping all of your friend's and family's contact information in one place. Using an address list through free email providers such as Yahoo!, Hotmail or AIM Mail is both convenient and simple. Because email can be opened anywhere you have access to the Internet, so can your address list. Things like home addresses and phone numbers, work addresses and phone numbers, and email addresses and instant messaging usernames can all be included in your address list.

Instructions

1. Go to your email account and enter your sign-in information. Click on "Mail" to go to your email.

2. Click on "Contacts" to add contacts or edit your contact list.

3. Select "Add Contact" or "New Contact," depending upon the email provider you're using to add contact information.

4. Fill in the information you wish to include in your address list. The form asks for things like name, email address, home address, work address, home phone number and work phone number. Only fill out what you want in your address list. You can always edit it later if you want to add more information.

5. Click "Save" or "Done" when you're finished.

6. Continue steps 3 through 5 until you're finished adding all of your contacts.

7. Go one step further and sort your address list into groups or categories. Groups and categories are the same thing, but email service providers call them different things. Click on "Add Category" or "Add Group" to name your groups. Type in the name of the group you want to create and click "Done" or "Save." Continue this until you've finished creating all of your group names. Common categories include family, friends and work.

8. Click on people from your contact list and under the Group or Category heading, select "Add" to add them to one of the categories you've created. Select the group you want to add them to and click "Done" or "Save."

References

• AOL Help: Manage Addresses in AOL or AIM Mail
• Microsoft Office: Manage Personal Contacts With Windows Live Hotmail
• Yahoo! Help: How do I Add a Contact?

Resources

• Yahoo! Help