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About Address Book
Address Book is the contact management component of Sun Java System Communications Express software. You can use the Address Book to do the following:
- Create individual contacts and groups of contacts that share the same profile, activity, or organization
- Add, sort, edit, delete and organize individual contacts and groups.
- Send email.
- Search personal, corporate, and remote address books.
- View calendars of contacts.
- Print an address book.
- Import or export contact information between Sun Java System Communications Express, Microsoft Outlook and Netscape address books.
When you select the Address Book tab in the Communications Express page, contacts and groups in your personal address book are displayed. Notice the following:
- The Current Address Book drop-down menu displays your personal address book, your remote address books, and your organization’s corporate directory. To view contacts and groups in one of these address books, select the address book from the Current Address Book drop-down menu.
- If you select view a remote directory from the Current Address Book drop-down menu, the Select action drop-down menu and the Delete and Add to Personal Address Book buttons are disabled.
- If you select view the corporate directory from the Current Address Book drop-down menu, the Delete and Add to Personal Address Book buttons are disabled.
- The Select action drop-down menu and the Add to Personal Address Book button are enabled after you search for contacts or groups in the corporate directory.
- The Select Action drop-down menu and the Delete button are enabled after you view the Personal Address Book from the Current Address Book drop-down menu.
- Address Book toolbar options are disabled when you view contacts from the corporate or a remote directory.
- Settings available in the Options tab allow you to customize the layout settings for Address Book.
To manage your repository of contact information, use the Address Book toolbar options listed in Table-1. The table consists of three columns. The first lists the toolbar option, the second the icon for the option, and the third the purpose of this option.
Table-1 Address Book Toolbar Options
Toolbar Option
Icons
Purpose
New Contact
Use this option to store a new contact’s personal details, including Name, Company, Phone, Email, Home Address, Work Address, Online Information, and Important Dates. For more information, see Managing Contacts.
New Group
Use this option to assign web addresses, a calendar URL, and members to a group. For more information, see Managing Groups.
Printable
Use this option to print the address book. For more information, see Printing an Address Book.
Import / Export
Use this option to import or export an address book from Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Address Book. For more information, see Import and Export Address Book.
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