Contacts

Your contacts are essential to your email. You can store information (not just email addresses, but phone numbers, notes, pictures, etc.) about the people you send email and access it all through the Contacts link on the left-hand side of any Gmail page.Some people are automatically added to your contacts list based on messages you've sent or received, but you can also manually add people. To create a contact:

1. Click Contacts along the left side of any page
2. Click the New Contact buttonin the top-left corner of the Contact Manager
3. Enter your contact's information in the appropriate fields.
4. Click Save to add your contact.

You can enter additional contact info by clicking More Information or by clicking the add link next to the appropriate field. Enter your contact's information in the appropriate fields and click Save.

If you're transitioning to Gmail from another email program and already have a contacts list from your old account, you can import contacts through a CSV file| or by importing them|.

Email addresses are automatically added to your Contacts list each time you use the Reply, Reply to all, or Forward functions to send messages to addresses not previously stored in your Contacts list. If these addresses don't appear immediately, try waiting a few minutes or signing out of your account and signing back in. "Also, each time you mark a message as 'Not Spam,' your Contacts list is automatically updated so that future messages from that sender are received in your inbox.