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      type="topic" id="contacts-usage-add-contact">

  <info>
    <desc>Adding a contact to your address book.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="contacts-usage" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.0.2" version="0.2" date="2011-09-29" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    

  </info>

<title>Adding a Contact</title>

<steps>
<item><p>Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>New</gui><gui>Contact</gui></guiseq>, or right-click in a blank space in the list of contacts and click <gui>New Contact...</gui>, or press <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Ctrl</key><key>C</key></keyseq>.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the address book under <gui>Where:</gui> to which it will be added.</p></item>
<item><p>Enter the contact information. Note that there are several tabs.</p></item>
<item><p>You can add a photograph to the contact by clicking the large field (showing a stylized person) next to <gui>Full Name</gui> and <gui>Categories</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Click <gui style="button">OK</gui>.</p></item>
</steps>

<section id="contact-quick-add">
<title>Contact Quick-Add from the Email Window</title>

<p>You can also add a contact directly from an email.</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Right-click on the email address in the message header.</p></item>
<item><p>Select <gui>Add to Address Book...</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Either press <gui style="button">Edit Full</gui> to bring up the full <gui>Contact Editor</gui>, or click <gui style="button">OK</gui> to directly add the contact to the chosen address book.</p></item>
</steps>
</section>

</page>