How To Create E-Mail Contacts In Entourage

Step 1: Create a New Card

Once you've opened Entourage, move the cursor to the upper left corner of the main window. Click on "Address Book". Click on new.

Step 2: Basic Information

Choose one of your favorite people. Look through all the contact info you were keeping in random places and fill in the person's basic contact information. When you're done entering in all the information, click on "More".

Step 3: Customize

In the new box that appears, you'll see all the information you entered nicely laid out. Click on the bar labeled "Name & E-mail."

At the bottom, you'll see "Custom" options. Click on one. This is a field you create for a piece of information you feel you should know about all your contacts. What you write will be a field for every contact in your address book. Click on "Custom 1" and create a new field. You can do this for almost every area of the v-card you're creating.

Step 4: Personalize

Click on "Personal".

Fill in any information about their birth date, anniversaries and any other details you can get your hands on.

If you've got one, drag a picture from your computer into this box.

Step 5: Last Words

Click on "Other". This is where you write where you met the person, their home town, their favorite restaurant… and anything else that will help you.

Finally, click "Save".

With vcards in Entourage, you can now keep everyone's information organized.

Bonus: when you start to type in a person's name you know, his or her e-mail address will instantly appear as an option for you.