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</h1> <p>Most contact management in Adium occurs directly on the contact list or via menu items in the Contacts menu.
</p> <p>If you just signed up for your instant messaging account, be sure to select
<strong>Add Group
</strong> from the
<strong>Contact
</strong> menu and add a group before adding contacts. See
<a href="ContactList-ManagingGroups.html">Managing groups
</a> for more information.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Adding a contact
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <li>Select
<strong>Add Contact
</strong> from the
<strong>Contact
</strong> menu to add a contact. You will need to select a service, destination group, and enter the user name of the contact.
<li>To add a contact on a particular service you must have a connected account on that service.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Removing a contact
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <li>Select the contact in your
<strong>Contact List
</strong>.
</li> <li>Either press
<strong>⌘-Delete
</strong> or right-click on the contact and select
<strong>Remove
</strong> or choose
<strong>Remove Contact
</strong> from the
<strong>Contact
</strong> menu.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>To move a contact to a new group, simply drag it. If you have a "borderless" contact (which includes all of the “Bubbles” window styles) list, you'll need to hold down
<strong>command
</strong> in order to initiate the drag.
</p> <li><i><strong>Note:
</strong></i> You can not manually reorder contacts if:
<li>You are sorting alphabetically (
<strong>View → Sort Alphabetically
</strong>)
</li> <li>You are sorting by status (
<strong>View → Sort by Status
</strong>) and
<strong>View → Configure Status Sort
</strong> has
"Sort within status groups: Alphabetically
" selected.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Showing offline contacts
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <li>Select
<strong>Show Offline Contacts
</strong> from the
<strong>View
</strong> menu or hit
<strong>Shift-⌘-H
</strong>. Repeat the process to hide offline contacts.
</li> <li>Either press
<strong>⌘-Delete
</strong>, or choose
<strong>Remove Contact
</strong> from the
<strong>Contact
</strong> menu.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Setting a contact's name (alias)
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>In some situations you may want to change how Adium displays a contact's name in your Contact List. To do this you will need to create an alias for that contact.
</p> <li><strong>Ctrl-Click
</strong> the desired contact in the Contact List.
</li> <li>Select
<strong>Get Info
</strong> from the
<strong>Contact
</strong> menu.
</li> <li>Fill in the
<strong>Alias
</strong> field under the
<strong>Settings
</strong> tab.
</li> <p>Alternatively, add a card for that person in the Address Book (making sure to include their IM usernames), and Adium's
<a href="AdvancedFeatures-AddressBookIntegration.html">Address Book integration
</a> feature (on by default) will automatically use that information in the Contact List. This has other benefits; Apple Mail, among other applications, makes use of Address Book's contents for better display as well.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Contact list limits
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Most services allow an unlimited number of contacts. Each individual AIM, ICQ, or MobileMe account can have a maximum of 500 contacts. This limit is set by the AOL servers; Adium itself places no limits.
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