OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox, and Thunderbird for Windows All in One [Electronic resources]

Greg Perry, M. T. Cozzola, Jennifer Fulton

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159. Add New Contacts

To send an email message, you need the recipient's email address. You can store frequently used addresses in the

Contacts list (also known as the address book). By default, Thunderbird automatically saves the addresses of the people you send email to so that they are available should you need them again. When needed, you can easily grab addresses from incoming email and add them to the

Contacts list as well. In addition, you can manually add addresses to the

Contacts list for people you've neither received nor sent emails to.

The address book actually has two sections:

Personal Address Book and

Collected Addresses . Typically, addresses you enter yourself are stored in the

Personal Address Book section, while addresses Thunderbird gathers for you from incoming or outgoing messages are placed in the

Collected Addresses section.

159. Add New Contacts

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TIPS

To import addresses from an old email program, choose

Tools, Import, choose

Address Books and click

Next , select your email program from those listed and click

Next , and click

Finish .

To make changes to the way Thunderbird collects outgoing email addresses (or to turn the option off), choose

Tools, Options , and on the

Advanced page, in the

General Settings section, enable the

Automatically add outgoing e-mail addresses to my option, and choose the section you want the addresses stored in (such as

Collected Addresses ).

To add an email address from an incoming message to your

Contacts list, display the message and, in the message header that appears above the message pane, click the sender's address and choose

Add to Address Book from the context menu that appears.

Click Address Book Button

Click the

Address Book button on the

Mail toolbar in the main Thunderbird window. The

Address Book appears.

Click New Card Button

Click the

New Card button on the

Address Book toolbar. The

New Card dialog box appears.

Select Address Section

Open the

Add to drop-down list and select the section of the address book into which you want to save the new contacteither

Personal or

Collected .

Type Contact Data

Enter the contact data on the

Contact tab. At a minimum, you should enter the contact's first and last name and email address. You might also want to select the format (HTML or text) that you want to use when sending messages to this address.

Add Other Data and Click OK

If desired, click the

Address tab and add the contact's home and/or business addresses and web page addresses. If you enter an address and then later display that contact by opening the

Address Book , you can click the

Get Map button that appears to open Firefox and display a map to the address.

If you have data that you want to enter and you can't find an appropriate field, click the

Other tab and enter that data in one of the custom fields. Click

OK. The contact appears in the

Address Book listing.