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 co-worker 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 then click Add to Instant Contact List.
• From a mail message, click Chat and then click 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 messaging contact list.

2. Click the Add to Instant Contact List icon .

3. Do one of the following:

• Enter the name of the person you want to add -- first name followed by last name.
• Click the Browse Directory button to search the directory.

5. Click Add.

6. If the name that you entered matches more than one entry in the directory, a list of matching names appears. Select the correct name from the list and click Add.

Note By default, private groups and their members appear in your instant messaging contact list even when the members are offline, but you can choose to display online members only.

See Also

The instant messaging contact list
Adding a group to the instant messaging contact list
Removing names from the instant messaging contact list
Displaying the instant messaging contact list
Searching in the Lotus Sametime directory
Displaying only online people in the instant messaging contact list

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