Add contacts to your Hotmail account

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- To add a contact click on 'People' from the top navigation menu above your e-mails.

- If you have exported contacts from another service such as GMail you can click on the Import contacts link that appears on the page.

- You can also add contacts manually. Click again on People and then select New from the navigation menu in the middle of the screen.

- Enter the information you have for the contact. At minimum you should enter their name and e-mail address, but Hotmail allows you to store other personal information. Click Save at the top of the new contact to save this person to your list.

- To create a category to put contacts in click Categories from the same menu where you selected new contact.

- A drop down menu appears, select New Category.

- Give the new category a name in the Name field. Then type in the contacts you wish to add in the Members line.

- When you have entered all the names click the Save button under the Members line.

- When you send an e-mail and wish to send it to all those in the category you can just type the category name in the 'To' line of the e-mail.