A closer look at the Address Book in 9.0
January 8, 2009 on 12:08 pm | In 9.0 version | 11 Comments
Yahoo! Address Book is one of the handiest features that is often overlooked in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. In 9.0, we’ve made your Yahoo! Address Book into another group in your contact list, which makes it easy to start all your communications, with all your friends, from one place. You can easily contact friends via email, phone or even SMS text messages, right from Yahoo! Messenger.
The fastest way to find someone in your contact list, including an address book contact, is to search for them using the contact search bar. Type in their name or contact info and your list will begin filtering down to the matching contacts. When the match appears, click on it in your list to view their contact card. From there you can IM, email, SMS or call depending on what contact info you have for them.
Within the Address Book group in your contact list, there are a variety of icons that can appear next to each contact.
This icon indicates that you can IM with this contact. While they’re not in your everyday list of IM contacts up above, you do have their IM ID. Just double click on the contact to start an IM. To add them to your everyday list of IM contacts so you can see when they’re online, click the “Add User” button in the IM window.
This means that you have a mobile number for a contact so you can send a free SMS message to their mobile phone, right from Yahoo! Messenger. When they reply, the response comes back to you in the same IM window. Note that your recipient may be charged for receiving and replying to your SMS message depending on their wireless plan.
This means you have a home or work phone number stored for a contact. Using the Phone Out feature, you can call this contact right from Yahoo! Messenger. Rates are as low as 1¢ a minute and a Phone Out account is required.
This icon indicates you have an email address for a contact. Double click it to start an email to them using your computer’s default email program. Find out how to make Yahoo! Mail your default email program.
This means you don’t have any “actionable” contact info for that friend, e.g. no email, phone or IM information that Yahoo! Messenger can use to help you reach them. However you can still view what information you do have for them – just double click on their listing.
From the Address Book group in your Yahoo! Messenger contact list, you can also add and remove contacts. To remove a contact, right click on it and select “Delete”. To add a new Address Book contact, right click on the “Address Book” group heading and select “Add a contact”. To edit a contact’s information, right click and select “Contact Details”. Any changes you make in your address book in Yahoo! Messenger will be reflected everywhere you use your Yahoo! Address Book, such as Yahoo! Mail.
If you prefer not to have your Address Book group appear in your Yahoo! Messenger contact list, you can hide it (and it will still be searchable using the contact search bar). Just click the contact preferences button next to the contact search bar up top, then select ‘Show Address Book contacts’ to uncheck it.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Great, really GREAT and NEW idea!!!!
This thing will change completely the use of IM and is really brilliant, a true innovation exceeding all expectations!!!
Comment by soldatino — January 8, 2009 #
I can’t use my address book, or contacs, because it closes as soon as I click an address. Therefore I have to forward everything to another email account before I can reply or forward. Why doesn’t it stay open until I click OK?
Comment by Janet McNerny — January 12, 2009 #
how can i delete a contact?
i tried to right-click n delete it, n the next thing i know it appears AGAIN!!
it’s very frustrating!
Comment by daisy — January 22, 2009 #
I installed YM 9.0 but it was interrupted when it was already 99 percent complete./ I retried three times but to no avail.
Comment by Fely David — January 24, 2009 #
Please assist I have Outlook express now I can’t import contacts how do I search by other means please advice
Comment by Ian — January 25, 2009 #
I try downloading yahoo messenger and it just kep showing contacts,i am not evening getting to add contacts to my adress book that yahoo made available
Comment by Seymone Francois — January 28, 2009 #
so yea i can’t delete my contacts it keeps coming up with error code 101 what is that?
Comment by Rj — May 26, 2009 #
How do I delete contacts from Instant Messenger and not from my address book?
Comment by Janice — August 24, 2009 #
@Janice – When looking at your contact list, right click on the contact you want to remove. When the menu appears, select “Delete”. A window will pop up asking if you’re sure you want to delete them. In that window is a checkbox that by default is unchecked; if you do want the contact eliminated completely from your address book, check the box before you click Yes. Otherwise, deleting the contact just removes them from your list, not from your Yahoo! Address Book.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — August 25, 2009 #
I’m trying to delete more than one address book entry at a time, and receive the following error:
The last Address Book operation did not succeed due to a server error. (Error Code: -50304)
I need to remove my address book entries and resync them, but not delete any messenger entries. I have a significant number of each. When will this issue be resolved?
Comment by S P — October 1, 2009 #
@ S P – Are you also encountering this error when you’re deleting from http://address.yahoo.com? I would try doing it there in the meantime.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — October 1, 2009 #