Use the Mobile Address Book

Multimedia message functionality is not available to wireless service subscribers in the United States. The Outlook Mobile Service is restricted to text messages only in the United States.

After you create an Outlook Mobile Service account, a Mobile Address Book is created automatically. This address book contains all the contacts in your Outlook Contacts folder who have their mobile phone numbers listed.

What do you want to do?

Search the Mobile Address Book for contacts

Delete contacts from the Mobile Address Book

Search the Mobile Address Book for contacts

You can search for mobile contacts in one of two ways:

• From within a new text or multimedia message

  1. On the Text Message tab in a text message or on the Multimedia Message tab in a multimedia message, in the Names group, click Address Book.

  2. In the Select Names: Contacts (Mobile) dialog box, click the contact that you want from the list of contacts or type the name of a contact in the Search box to search for it.

  3. Click the To box to add the selected contact to it. You can select multiple contacts simultaneously by pressing CTRL and then clicking the contacts that you want.

  4. Click OK.

  5. The contacts that you clicked in the Select Names: Contacts (Mobile) dialog box are displayed in the To box in your text or multimedia message.

• From the main Outlook window

  1. On the Tools menu, click Address Book.

  2. Click Contacts (Mobile) in the Address Book list.

  3. In the Select Names: Contacts (Mobile) dialog box, click the contact that you want from the list of contacts or type the name of a contact in the Search box to search for it.

  4. Click the To box to add the selected contact to it. You can select multiple contacts simultaneously by pressing CTRL and then clicking the contacts that you want.

  5. Click OK.

  6. The contacts that you clicked in the Select Names: Contacts (Mobile) dialog box are displayed in the To box in your text or multimedia message.

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Delete contacts from the Mobile Address Book

1. In the Select Names: Contacts (Mobile) dialog box, click the contact that you want to delete, and then press DELETE.

2. Click OK to confirm that you want to delete the contact.

Note: Deleting a contact from the Mobile Address Book does not remove the contact from your Outlook Contacts list. Instead, it will remove only the mobile number from the details listed for the contact.

Deleting a contact from Outlook Contacts will automatically remove it from the Mobile Address Book.

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