How to Add Addresses to Outlook Express Address Book

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Here are three ways to add email contacts to the address book in Outlook Express.

• Steps

1. When you receive an email and want to add the sender's email address and name to your Address Book, right-click mouse on the sender's name in the header (From, Subject, Received line) of their email. Choose “Add sender to address book‿, and you're done. Open address book and check it out.
2. If you want to add a new email manually, open the address book, and click on , then choose .
3. Click the tab.
4. Fill in “First‿ & “Last‿ names in the appropriate boxes.
5. Type carefully the email address in the email address box.
6. Click , note: if it’s the only address for that contact, it will be the default (Main) address. Otherwise, you will have to select which one you want as the default address.
7. Click
8. When you receive an email address of another person written in an email, locate the email address.
9. Right click and choose
10. A window should open or open the address book and double click the new address, click the Name tab and overwrite the email address in the First Name box and input the last name in the Last Name box. The email address will be in the proper box.
11. Click

• Tips
  Here is how to remove the old address: Open your address book locate the unneeded address and click choose and .

• Warnings
  In the first example , if the sender does not have his or her name input properly in the header, it will not enter into the First and Last name box properly either, for example a nickname or just an email address. To rectify this double click the name you want to edit and in the window that opens click the "Name" tab and edit the information, click OK.

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