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Outlook Express includes a fully functional address book for managing e-mail addresses.
Addresses can be shared or they can kept private if you create multiple Identities. Addresses can also be sorted into folders so you can keep related address together (like family
members).
Another useful feature is the "Group" feature which allows you to create a group e-mail list. What a group e-mail list is a list of e-mail addresses that are related in some
way. For example, you send a weekly e-mail to all the members of a club you belong to. The Group feature allows you to put all the club member's e-mail addresses into the group list. When it comes time
to send out the weekly e-mail, you send the e-mail to the group address rather then creating individual messages for each club member. Big time saver.
To open the address book click on the Tools menu then click Address Book. You can also click on the Address button on your Outlook Express toolbar.
The address book shown below is empty. The are two folders currently shown for organizing e-mail addresses, "Shared Contacts" and "Main Identity's Contacts". Any
addresses stored in the "Shared Contacts" folder will be shared among all users (if more than one) of Outlook Express. The "Main Identity's Contacts" folder is for private
addresses.
Click on the New button to create a new e-mail contact or click on the "X" in the top-right corner to close the address book.
Fill in their First & Last Name then type in their e-mail address then click Add. The Display list allows you to decide how to list this person in your address book. Some of the choices are; sorted
by: First Last Name, Last, First Name, Nickname or e-mail address. The last item of interest is the checkbox to "Send E-Mail using plain text only". This selection controls whether you as the
sender can create and fancy e-mails using different size and color text or include pictures when sending a message to this particular contact. Click OK to add this contact to you address
book.
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