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<h1>Contacts: your address book</h1>
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<li><a href="#add">Adding a contact</a></li>
<li><a href="#remove">Removing a contact</a></li>
<li><a href="#edit">Editing a contact</a></li>
<li><a href="#group">Creating a group contact</a></li>
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<p>Contacts allow you to store names, email addresses, and other information in a contact list, which serves as an address book. You can quickly send mail to a contact by retrieving information from your contact list.</p>
<h2><a name="add" id="add"></a>Adding a contact</h2>
<p><strong>To add a contact</strong></p>
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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>Contacts</strong>. Your contact list appears in the right pane.</li>
<li>On the menu bar, click <strong>New Contact</strong>.</li>
<li>Fill in the contact information:</li>
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<li><strong>Nickname.</strong> A short name that you can use for quick addressing. If you type the nickname instead of the full display name or email address, Alpine will offer a list of matching choices from your contacts list and the University of Washington directory. You can select the contact from the list.</li>
<li><strong>Display Name.</strong> The name that appears in the message header.</li>
<li><strong>Email.</strong> The contact's email address.</li>
<li><strong>Notes.</strong> Any text you want. Used only by you.</li>
<li><strong>Fcc Folder.</strong> A folder that will receive copies of all messages that you send directly to this contact.</li>
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<li>Click <strong>Add</strong>.</li>
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<p><strong>To add a contact from a message</strong></p>
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<li>Drag the contact's email address from the<strong> From</strong> field to the <strong>Contacts</strong> folder.
<p><em>or</em></p></li>
<li>To the right of the <strong>From</strong> field, click <strong>Add</strong>.</li>
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<p><strong>To add multiple contacts from a message</strong></p>
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<li>On the menu bar, click <strong>More Actions</strong>, and then select <strong>Extract</strong>. Alpine extracts everything in the message that is in the format of an email address and presents a list of contacts. You can confirm each contact.</li>
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<h2><a name="remove" id="remove"></a>Removing a contact</h2>
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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>Contacts</strong>. Your contact list appears in the right pane.</li>
<li>Select the contacts you wish to remove by checking the boxes to the left of the Display Names.</li>
<li>On the menu bar, click <strong>Delete</strong>.</li>
<li>Confirm that you want to <strong>Delete</strong> the contacts <strong>Forever</strong>.</li>
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<h2><a name="edit" id="edit"></a>Editing a contact</h2>
<p><strong>To edit a contact</strong></p>
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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>Contacts</strong>. Your contact list appears in the right pane.</li>
<li>Click on the <strong>Display Name</strong> to edit the corresponding entry.</li>
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<h2><a name="group" id="group"></a>Creating a group contact</h2>
<p>A group contact is simply a contact with more than one email address.</p>
<p><strong>To add a group contact</strong></p>
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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>Contacts</strong>. Your contact list appears in the right pane.</li>
<li>On the menu bar, click <strong>New Group</strong>.</li>
<li>Fill in the contact information like you would for a regular contact, except</li>
<li><strong>Group Email.</strong> Enter all of the addresses or nicknames separated by commas.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Add</strong>.</li>
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