How to Create a Personal Address Book in Microsoft 2000 Office

If you want to store your personal address book on your computer with Microsoft Office 2000, you can use Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook, the email and organizer application, has a built in address book. This address book is useful, as it allows you to send emails directly to your contacts by name, rather than entering their email addresses each time you need to communicate. There are a number of ways of adding a contact to the address book in Outlook 2000.

Adding a Contact from an Email

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  Click "Start," then "All Programs" and then "Microsoft Outlook."

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  Double click an email from someone whom you wish to add to the address book.

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  Right click the "From," "To" or "CC" field that contains the email address.

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  Click "Add to Contacts."

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  Enter the contact's personal details and click "OK" to save.

Adding a Contact from Scratch

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  Click "Start," then "All Programs" and then "Microsoft Outlook."

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  Click "File," then "New Contact." You can also press "Ctrl"+"Shift"+"C." Alternatively click "Tools," then "Address Book," then "File," then "New Entry" and then "New Contact."

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  Enter the personal details for your contact.

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  Click "OK" to save the contact to your personal address book.