When you add an individual name to your Instant Messaging Contact List, you must add the name to a new or existing private group. For example, if you add a coworker named Devon to your Instant Messaging Contact List because you are working on a marketing project together, you might create a new private group called Marketing and add Devon to this group.

Note You cannot add individual names to public groups. Your system administrator controls the contents of public groups.

You can add an individual name to your Instant Contact List either from Mail or from the Instant Contact List.

From Mail

1. Do one of the following:

• From a view, select a mail message from the individual you want to add, click Chat, and choose Add to Instant Contact List.
• From a mail message, click Chat and choose Add Sender to Instant Contact List.

3. Click OK.

The individual's name is automatically added to the Instant Contact List.

1. Display the Instant Contact List.

2. Click the "Add to Instant Contact List" icon .

3. Under "Private group," in the "User name" field, enter a name of the person you want to add -- first name followed by last name -- and click Add. Alternatively, you can:

• Click the "Browse Directory" button to search the directory.
• Type just the first name or last name (but not a short name such as Rob instead of Robert, unless that is how the person is listed in the instant messaging directory). If the name that you typed matches more than one entry in the directory, a list of matching names appears. Select the correct name from the list and click Add.

5. Select an existing private group name, or create a new group by entering a new group name.

6. Click Add.

Note Private groups and their members appear in your Instant Contact List even when the members are offline.

See Also

The Instant Messaging Contact List
Adding a group to the Instant Messaging Contact List
Removing people from the Instant Messaging Contact List

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