The Address Book on your AOL® software makes it easy to keep track of e-mail addresses, phone numbers (home, work, cellular, fax, and pager), mailing addresses (work and home), birthdays, anniversaries, and the home pages of all your friends.
How to
Manually add/edit contact information in your Address Book
You can add a new contact or new address to your Address Book by adding the new contact or address manually, adding addresses from the e-mails you receive, or 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, and then click Address Book.
2. In the Address Book window, you can 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, and then click Edit 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, and then click Edit.
3. Enter or edit the information under the Contact, Home, Work, or Details tab.
Notes:
- If you want to add an AOL Username or AOL e-mail address, enter it in the Screen Name box. The Screen Name box can hold up to 30 characters.
- If you want to add other e-mail addresses (non-AOL e-mail addresses), enter them in the Other E-Mail boxes.
4. Once finished, click Save.
5. Click X 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, contacts from which you receive automatic updates are identified by a special icon in order to distinguish them from contacts that you do not receive automatic updates from.
- 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 to 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 is not in your Address Book (you can change this setting by adjusting 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-mails you receive. You can create group mailing lists for your private use, or you can share e-mails with everyone on the mailing list at AOL Groups@AOL.com.
To add contact names to your Address Book from e-mails 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, and then click Save.
3. Repeat steps 1-2 for each address you'd like to add.
4. Click X 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 down the Ctrl key on your keyboard as you click the 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, and then click Save.
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Set the Auto Add Address feature in your AOL Address Book
Addresses you have stored in your Address Book (or added to your Buddy List) are automatically filled in as you start typing the address for an e-mail or instant message.
To set the Auto Add Address feature in the AOL Address Book
1. On the AOL toolbar, click the Mail menu, and then click Address Book.
2. Click the Address Book Options drop-down menu, and then click Address Book Settings.
3. Check the Automatically add e-mail addresses to my Address Book box to enable the option. If you want to disable this option, click the check box to clear it, and then click Save.
4. Click X to close all open windows.
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