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# Adding a contact to your address book

Use Address Book to store contact information for people you correspond with. Mail, iChat, and other applications use the information from your address book. For example, when you're addressing a new message in Mail, you can just type a name, and the matching address is found in Address Book. In iCal, you can drag a name from Address Book to an event on your calendar to invite that person to the event.

1. Open Address Book and choose File > New Card. A new card is created with empty fields for the person's information. If one of the fields doesn't apply, simply skip it, and it will not be shown in the completed card.
2. Add the contact information you like to the fields. Press Tab to move from field to field. To enter a two-line street address, press Return and add additional address lines. (You can add additional lines only to the address field.)
3. To add more fields, such as for additional phone or fax numbers, click the Add (+) button next to a field name. The Add button appears only after you have used fields that are already onscreen.
4. When you're done entering information, click the Edit button to view the finished card.

To add a virtual address card (vCard) that someone has sent you, drag it to the Address Book window. Or, double-click the vCard to open Address Book and automatically add the card. If that person is already in your address book, you will be asked if you want to merge the new information with the existing card.

## See also

importing contacts