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      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="add-contact">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#contacts"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="offline-contacts"/>
    <desc>Add someone to the contact list.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-15" status="draft"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review">
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      <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-08-31" status="done"/>
      -->
    </revision>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.3" date="2009-09-05" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
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    <copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
    </copyright>
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  </info>

  <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 account you wish
      to use to connect to your contact.  Your contact will need to be using the
      same service as the account you select.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In the <gui>Identifier</gui> field, enter your contact’s login ID, username,
      screen name, or other appropriate identifier for the service type.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In the <gui>Alias</gui> field, type your contact’s name as you would like
      it to appear in your contact list.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Click <gui>Add</gui> to add the person to your list of
        contacts.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <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>