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How to add a contact

Starting Conversations
1. Add contacts to your list. Click on the "Contact" menu then "Add Contact...", pick the account type from the drop down menu and type in their screen name(dont forget @domain.com for msn) then click "Add").
2. Double click on the person in your contact list who you want to start up a conversation with and a window will pop up.
3. In this window type your message in the white bar at the bottom and hit enter(or return); inside the big window space you can see the complete conversation.

(Follow up to #1 in that list...)

Or, if you're already talking to someone who isn't on your buddy list, and you'd like to add them, control-click their tab (the area with their name and status icon, below the text input field in the message window) and select Add Contact...

edit: is it a problem to mention right-clicking on Macs? Do most people know that control-click == right-click?
edit 2: changed it to "control-click"

i think were better off calling it control and click considering apple mice dont even have a button let alone a right one

Yeah, it's weird because I've always used a 2-button mouse, so to me "right-click" sounds more natural than "control-click," but there are probably a greater number of Mac users who know that "control-click" can mean right-click than the number who know that "right-click" can mean control-click. So maybe "control-click" by itself is better. The more explicit way is "right-click (or control-click, if you have a one-button mouse)."

imho, ctrl+click is the way it needs to be documented. usually, you if you already know ctrl+click, you can figure out it is the same as a right click, but possibly not vice versa.

And then Control-Click works on both mice.

Wengero wrote:Starting Conversations
1. Add contacts to your list. Click on the "Contact" menu then "Add Contact...", pick the account type from the drop down menu and type in their screen name(dont forget @domain.com for msn) then click "Add").
2. Double click on the person in your contact list who you want to start up a conversation with and a window will pop up.
3. In this window type your message in the white bar at the bottom and hit enter(or return); inside the big window space you can see the complete conversation.

I want to add some contacts that use passport.com, aol.com, and hotmail.com addresses, but when I create a new contact my only options are .mac, AIM, or ICQ.

Do the former addy's I mentioned go in the AIM catagory or can I not talk to people using these addresses?

Thanks,

noob

did you go to preferences->accounts and add the accounts you want

ps this isnt a help forum this is a forum where you write help guides

Wengero wrote:did you go to preferences->accounts and add the accounts you want

ps this isnt a help forum this is a forum where you write help guides

I have it figured out, I needed to set up a MSN screen name in addition to my AIM screen name in order to be able to add MSN contacts.

Sorry for posting in the wrong forum, feel free to move this.