Using Your Address Book
- Please make sure to sign into your Message Center account before importing an Address Book.
- Importing Address Book entries will not remove the already present addresses in your old Address book.
- Message Center Address Book can hold 2000 entries. If you are importing more than the specified limit, only the first 2000 will be imported.
- If you import information about a contact that matches the email address of an existing entry, only the most recently uploaded version of that entry remains.
- Print primary information only – Selecting this option would print FirstName, LastName, MemberID, Primary Email, and Primary Phone Number.
- Print all information – Selecting this option prints all the information available in your address book.
Message Center provides its users the ability to import Address Book entries from other Web based Email providers like Hotmail, Yahoo! and also from mail programs like Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express. Before you import the Address Book entries, please read the helpful pointers listed below.
A few things to remember:
To view instructions to import for Web based Email programs like Hotmail or Yahoo, click here.
If you are using a mail program, then select the program for detailed instructions from the link below:
1. Microsoft Outlook Express
2. Microsoft Outlook 97, 98 or 2000
3. Microsoft Outlook 2002 (XP) or 2003/
4. Other custom CSV file
To add a new contact to your Address Book:
1. Click the Address Book tab on the top navigation bar to open the address book.
2. Make sure the Contacts tab is selected, and then click the Add Contact link to create a new contact.
3. In the Nickname box, enter a name for the new contact.
4. In the First Name box, enter the person’s first name.
5. In the Email box, enter an email address.
6. In the Last Name box, enter the person’s last name.
7. If you would like to enter optional personal information about your contact, you can fill in Home Address and Work Address by clicking on Show Additional Fields.
8. You can also fill in a contact’s phone numbers and Internet information (such as Web site) under Phone Numbers and Internet Information.
9. Other info, such as a contact’s birthday, anniversary, and other notes, can optionally be filled in under Additional Information.
10. To save your new address book contact, click Save. If you want to cancel, click Cancel.
The Quick Add feature allows to you add an Email address to your Address Book with the basic information.
Add a Contact with Quick Add:
1. Sign into the NetZero Message Center.
2. Click Address Book tab.
3. Click Expand to open the Quick Add section of the Address book.
4. Enter the contact information in the appropriate fields.
Note: To add a contact with Quick Add you only need to enter either one of their NetZero ID, Email Address or Phone Number.
5. If you have entered a Phone Number, select the appropriate type from the dropdown list.
6. Click Quick Add.
To edit a contact in your Address Book:
1. Click the Address book tab on the top navigation bar to open the address book.
2. Click on the Contacts tab and check the box next to the Email of the contact you want to edit.
Note: If you check off more than one contact, only the top-most contact will be edited.
3. Click the View/Edit button above the contacts section.
4. Edit the contact information.
5. To save your changes to the address book contact, click Save. If you want to cancel, click Cancel.
You can send a message by manually entering the nicknames corresponding to the email addresses in the Address Book. You will have to separate the nicknames by commas.
Please ensure that you enter the Nickname in the correct format i.e. if the nickname is entered in capital letters in the Address Book, then be sure to enter the same way in the To field.
To delete contacts from your Address Book:
1. Log in to Message Center.
2. Click on the Address Book tab.
3. Check the box next to the contacts you would like to delete.
4. Click on the Delete button.
To create a new Group:
1. Click the Address Book tab on the top navigation bar to open the address book.
2. Click on Groups tab.
3. Click on Add Group link.
4. In the Group Name box, enter a name for your Group.
5. In the Click here to enter Email Addresses box, enter email addresses for your list. You can also select the contacts from right hand side. For multiple selection use Ctrl key and click Add button.
6. Click Save to create your Group or Cancel to exit.
Yes. You can type the name of the contact or the email address in the Search box to locate contacts in your Address book.
Also you can sort through your address book contacts by their First Name, Last Name, Nickname, Primary Email or Primary Phone. You can then sort the contacts alphabetically to help narrow down your search.
Search Address Book Contacts:
1. Sign into the NetZero Message Center.
2. Click Address Book tab.
3. Enter the keyword in the Search box.
4. Click Search.
Yes. You can type the name of the contact or the email address in the Search box to locate contacts in your Address book.
Also you can sort through your address book contacts by their First Name, Last Name, Nickname, Primary Email or Primary Phone. You can then sort the contacts alphabetically to help narrow down your search.
Search Address Book Contacts:
1. Sign into the NetZero Message Center.
2. Click Address Book tab.
3. Enter the keyword in the Search box.
4. Click Search.
Following are the new Address Book Features:
Import Contacts – Import the address book from web-based email applications like Yahoo or from offline email applications like Outlook Express.
Print Contacts – Customize the Address book for printing.
Import Contacts
Importing contacts into Message Center
To Import contacts into Message Center please make sure that you are signed into your account before following these steps.
1. Click on the Address Book tab.
2. Click on the Import Contacts link on the upper-right corner.
3. In the Import Contacts section, select the program to import your contacts from E.g. Outlook Express
4. Enter the path and filename you exported or click on Browse to locate the file on your computer.
5. Click on Import.
Print Contacts
1. Sign into the NetZero Message Center.
2. Click Address Book tab.
3. Click Print Contacts to open the Print Address Book screen.
4. Click on Please select the information you would like to print.
5. To view and print the selected layout, click the Print button.
6. Click Close to close the print preview window or Print to start printing the selected information.