Microsoft Office Communicator 2007

Adding Contacts

Before you can IM another person in Communicator 2007, you must add them as a contact to your Contact List. This document will guide you through the process of finding your contact and then adding your contact to the Contact List as well as deleting them.

Adding Contacts
Deleting Contacts

Adding Contacts

There are two methods to search and add your contact in Office Communicator 2007: the Wizard option and the Search box option.

Adding Contacts: Wizard Option

Click thenext to MENU» select Tools » Add a Contact...
The Add a Contact dialog box appears.
Select Use an e-mail address or sign-in address
Click NEXT
The dialog box refreshes.
In the text box, type the desired e-mail address or sign-in address
Click NEXT
The dialog box refreshes.
OPTIONAL: To assign the contact to a specific contact group, from the Select a contact group pull-down menu, select the desired group
To add another contact, click NEXT
To close the dialog box, click FINISH

Adding Contacts: Search Box Option

When using the Search box, the names of both contacts and non-contacts will appear in the Search Results pane. If you have a large Contact List, you can use the Search box to find certain individuals with whom you want to communicate with. To do this, simply follow step one below. To add a contact to your Contact List, follow steps one through three below.

From the Search box, type the person's display name or email address
The Search Results pane appears.
NOTE: A list of all the matching users from the Active Directory and the Microsoft Outlook and Communicator 2007 Contact List will appear.
From the Search Results pane, select the desired contact
HINT: To select multiple contacts in the pane, press and hold [Ctrl] while selecting the names.
Drag the contact(s) to your Contact List

Deleting Contacts

If you know for sure that you no longer will be communicating with another user, then it may be appropriate to delete the contact from your Contact List.
WARNING: After you delete the contact, you will no longer be able to IM with them unless you add them as a contact again.

Right-click the contact that you want to delete
The Contact menu appears.
From the Contact menu, select Remove from Contact List
A confirmation dialog box appears.
Click OK
The contact is deleted from the Contact List.