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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
  type="topic"
  id="add-contact">
  
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="offline-contacts"/>
    <desc>Add someone to the contact list.</desc>
    <revision version="3.0" date="2009-06-15" status="draft"/>
    
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
    </copyright>
    
    <license>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</license>
    
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>
  
  <comment>
    <cite date="2009-06-15"><name>Phil Bull</name></cite>
    <p>Instructions need review, didn't test with other IM services to confirm 
      the names of the textboxes. Also, check the name of the Add button.</p>
  </comment>

  <title>Add someone to your list of contacts</title>
  
  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
    Choose <guiseq><gui>Chat</gui><gui>Add Contact</gui></guiseq>
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
    From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the type of
    service the person you want to add to your contacts is using.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
    In the <gui>Identifier</gui> text box, type the email address
    or the username of the person you want to add to your
    contacts list.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
    In the <gui>Alias</gui> text box, type their name.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
    Click <gui>Add</gui> to add the person to your list of
    contacts.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <p>
    You can view your list of contacts in the main window of
    <app>Empathy</app>.
  </p>

  <note>
    <p>
      To add a new person to your list of contacts, you need to be
      connected to the Internet and to your account.
    </p>
  </note>

</page>