- [Instructor] The Address Book tool that comes with
Windows 11 is called People.
When you're working in the Mail application,
you can click this button down at the bottom of the window
and it will open it as a separate application.
You'll see that here in the taskbar.
And the interface is pretty simple.
On the left side, I see a list of all the people
I have in my address book, and when I select one of them,
I see the contact information I have saved for that person.
If this window is really small,
you will need to click the Back button in the top left
to go back to the list.
Or if you make the window larger,
like if you maximize the window,
you'll be able to select somebody
and see all that information in the window at the same time.
Now, it's certainly possible that
you might have an empty address book,
but if you have your computer linked to an email account,
which we did in another video,
you will probably see the address book from that account
already synchronized here.
I say probably because not all email accounts
support address book syncing.
We can check this by going into Settings.
That will be this gear button up at the top.
And from here, I can double check and make sure
I know which accounts are actually working
with the address book.
And then you can click the Back button
in the top left to go back.
But the big thing here is adding new people
to your address book.
To do that, we'll click the Plus button up here at the top
and then fill in the information.
Now, first, I want to choose which online account
I want this contact to synchronize with.
I'll choose my Outlook account.
Then I'll put in the name for this person,
and then fill in whatever contact information I have.
Now, if you fill in an email address, for example,
You could then click this Plus button
to add another email address,
and the same works for a phone.
And you can also open up this menu
where you can choose whether it is a personal email,
a work email, or something else.
Then up at the top, there's a button to add a picture
if you want to add a picture for this person.
That will just open up the Windows Photos application
where you can choose a picture from your library.
But for now, I'm just going to click X
in the top right corner to close that.
So fill in whatever information you want, then click Save,
and that person has been added to the address book.
Later, if you need to delete a contact, just select them,
and there is a Delete button up here at the top.
But the really great part is how the address book
links to the Mail application.
So let's say you wanted to send an email
to one of your contacts.
You could select them in your address book.
And if you have an email address for that person,
you will see the email button next to it.
You can click on that
and it will open your email application.
Now, if this is the first time you do this,
it will ask you which application you use for mail.
I chose the default mail application
that comes with Windows, but if you use something else,
you can choose that.
Now that I'm in the Mail application,
because I have two email accounts linked,
I can choose which account I want to send this message from.
I'll choose my Outlook account.
And now it starts a new email message
with the recipient already filled in here in the To field.
For now, I'm just going to discard this message.
I don't want to actually send it.
Now, the other option would be to
start here in the Mail application,
then you can just click the New Mail button
over on the left, go to the To field,
and if you just start typing in
the name of somebody that you have in your address book,
it will search your address book.
And if it finds that person, you can click on them
and it fills them in there.
So that's really all there is to it.
From here, you can build your list of contacts.