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Do you get frustrated when you need to email a friend and can't remember their email address? A simple way of avoiding this is by adding your friend's email address to your address book. This wikiHow article teaches you how to add email addresses to your contacts or address book.
How to Add an Email to an Address Book
- Gmail: Manually save a contact by hovering over their name in the email and clicking "Add to Contacts".
- Apple Mail: Click or tap the sender's name, edit their contact info, and click"Done".
- Outlook: Open the email that you want to save, then right-click the sender's name and select "Add to Contacts".
Steps
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Open the email from a sender that you want to save in your address book. To do this, open the Gmail app on your phone or tablet, or go to https://mail.google.com .
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Navigate to the sender's contact card. If you're on a computer, hover your cursor over the sender's name and the contact card will pop up. If you're using a phone or tablet, tap their profile picture (it could just be the first letter of their name, like "H" inside a circle).Advertisement
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Click or tap Add to Contacts . This will open Contacts on your phone or tablet so you can edit the contact as you're saving it.
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Open the email from a sender that you want to save in your address book. To do this, open the Apple Mail app on your phone, tablet, or computer, or go to https://www.icloud.com/mail .
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Edit the contact (if needed). You can change the name, what sort of contact this is (home, work, other), and a few other options. [4] X Research source
- Click or tap Done when you're finished. [5] X Research source
- If that person is already a contact and you just want to add the new email address, tap Add to Existing Contact instead.
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Open the email from the sender that you want to save in your address book. To do this, open the Outlook app on your phone, tablet, or computer, or go to https://outlook.live.com in a web browser.
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Right-click the name you want to add to your address book. If you don't see their name in the "From" line, make sure that you have the email opened instead of previewing it. [6] X Trustworthy Source Microsoft Support Technical support and product information from Microsoft. Go to source
- If you're using a phone or tablet, tap the name instead.
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Click Add to Contacts . A new window will open so you can edit their contact details before saving.
- Click or tap Save when you're finishing editing. [7] X Trustworthy Source Microsoft Support Technical support and product information from Microsoft. Go to source
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References
- ↑ https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7280886?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- ↑ https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7345608?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- ↑ https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/check-your-email-iph461684497/ios
- ↑ https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/check-your-email-iph461684497/ios
- ↑ https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/save-and-find-email-addresses-mm6b1a3ec0/icloud
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-contact-in-outlook-1ef8f35b-04be-4bd0-ac9c-6d6a146887ce
- ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-contact-e1dc4548-3bd6-4644-aecd-47b5728f7b0d#ID0EBBD=Newer_versions
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