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Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
Other things you can do with Contacts
You can do many things with contacts, such as print them as labels or synchronize with iNotes and mobile devices.
Adding or updating contacts from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item
You can add a new contact from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item you receive. If you receive mail from an existing contact who has a new email address, you can also update the existing contact record.

Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
- Getting started with Contacts
  You can save important information about people, such as mailing addresses, birthdays, and companies. You can import contacts from other programs, and more.
- Contacts quick reference
  This quick reference includes a screen image explaining the basics in Contacts, as well as tables listing other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.
- Personalizing your Contacts settings
  You can change the look of your contacts.
- Contacts access and delegation
  You can give someone access to view or edit your Contacts, or you can open other people's Contacts if they have given you access.
- Other things you can do with Contacts
  You can do many things with contacts, such as print them as labels or synchronize with iNotes and mobile devices.
  - Synchronizing contacts with iNotes® and mobile devices
    You can synchronize contacts with iNotes® and mobile devices, so you have the same contacts in both places.
  - Adding or updating contacts from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item
    You can add a new contact from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item you receive. If you receive mail from an existing contact who has a new email address, you can also update the existing contact record.
  - Sending someone a contact or group
    You can send a contact or group entry to another user. Note, however, that HCL Notes® email addresses (for example, Jane Q Public/Acme/Sales) are useful only if the recipient uses Notes Mail.
  - Creating a group from an email
    You can create a group entry from a message, meeting invitation, or to do item that you receive.
  - Showing or hiding group members' names when sending an email
    If you address a message to a group in your contact list, you can prevent or allow recipients to see the members of the group in the message.
  - Printing contacts
    You can print out your contacts as labels, print a contact entry to see all of the information about a contact or a group, or print the contact information as it appears in a view.
  - Importing contacts from other sources
    If you have contacts from other sources, you can import those contacts into your HCL Notes® contacts.
  - Exporting contacts
    You can export contacts from Notes and import them into other programs.
- Troubleshooting Contacts
  You can get help solving problems in Contacts.

Adding or updating contacts from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item

You can add a new contact from an email, meeting invitation, or to do item you receive. If you receive mail from an existing contact who has a new email address, you can also update the existing contact record.

Procedure

Select the email, invitation, or to do.
Click More > Add Sender to Contacts. If the sender is not already included in your Contacts, the contact entry is created.
Optional: If the Add Sender to Contacts dialog box displays a message that there is already an entry for this person in your Contacts, do one of the following:
- If there is no change in the information displayed, select Skip.
- If the information displayed is different than the contact entry and you want to use the newer information, select Update.
Optional: If this contact has Internet mail and you want to encrypt future messages that you send to the contact, click Advanced and make sure Include X.509 certificates when encountered is selected.

Note: Whenever you are asked to add certificates for this contact from a message, click More > Add Sender to Contacts again to update the entry with the latest information.