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How to Add a Sender to Your Windows Live Hotmail Address Book Quickly

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I know my contacts, but I don't know all their email addresses. Fortunately, Windows Live Hotmail has a nice address book.

And even more fortunately, Hotmail makes it easy to add the sender of an email to the address book contacts.

Add a Sender to Your Windows Live Hotmail Address Book Quickly

To add a sender to your Windows Live Hotmail contacts:

  • Open a message from the desired sender.
  • Click Add contact next to the From: name and address.
  • Optionally, click Add details (after This address has been added to your contacts.)
    • Edit the contact's details.
    • Click Save.

In Windows Live Hotmail classic, you can:

  • Compose and send a reply to a message from the desired sender.
  • Make sure the desired email address is checked on the Your message has been sent to the following recipients page under Add contacts.
  • Click Add to contacts.

Add a Sender to Your MSN Hotmail Address Book Quickly

To add the sender of a message you have received in MSN Hotmail to your address book quickly:

  • Open a message from the sender you want to add in MSN Hotmail.
  • Click the Save Address button.
  • Make sure Add to Contacts is selected for all the people you want to add to your Hotmail address book.
  • Edit the Quickname:, First Name: and Last Name: if necessary.
  • Click OK.
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