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How to Add Contacts to Your Windows Mail Email
Contacts in any email program make it easy to keep track of recipients and easily send emails to multiple people at once. Windows Live Mail lets you add contacts to a number of categories to keep them organized. Learn how to manually add a contact to your Windows Live Mail contacts list.
Several options in Windows Live Mail make it easy to create and maintain an up-to-date contact list. One option lets you automatically add contacts to your address book when you reply to them a certain number of times. Sometimes, however, you just want to manually add a contact to your address book instead of waiting until you reply to an e-mail message.
Adding contacts to an address manually has several advantages. The most important advantage is that you can be sure that the information for the contact contains all the information you want to include.