Want to save yourself time and hassle? You can store the email addresses of all your contacts in the Outlook Express address book.

That way you don’t have to type in email addresses every time you want to send a message to them.

There are two ways to save addresses:

• Type it into your address book.
• Save the email address and contact details of an email you’ve received into your address book.

Find out how to do both below.

Got another email account? To save you typing all the addresses again, you can import an address book from another account. Click on Importing an address book into Outlook Express

Type someone's details into your address book.

To type the email address and contact details into your address book:

1. In Outlook Express, click on the Addresses button on the toolbar (or open the Tools menu and select Address Book). The Address Book screen opens.
2. In the Address Book screen, click on New, then click on Contact.
3. Click the Name tab.
4. Type the name of the contact in the boxes provided.
5. Carefully type this contact’s email address in the Email address box.
6. Click on Add, then click on OK.

Add the details from an email you’re received.

To save the email address of a received email into your address book:

1. Open the email.
2. Locate the email address of the sender.
3. Right-click on the sender to display a sub-menu, then select Add Sender to Address Book. The email address and contact details are automatically added to the address book.