How to create groups in Hotmail

Hotmail is one of the oldest and most popular email systems. Created in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 1997, it offers innumerable possibilities such as sending and receiving emails, instant messaging, file hosting, etc. One way to speed up the sending of emails is to classify the contacts in our address book in groups . In this article of .com we explain how to create groups in Hotmail .

You will need to:

A hotmail account
Have the address book created

Enter contacts

Once we have accessed our account we will look at the top left of the screen and locate the succession of following words: Hotmail, Mesenger, SkyDrive and Msn. We will place the cursor of our mouse on the word Hotmail and a drop-down will be shown with a new combination of words: inbox, calendar, contacts, send email. We will click on the CONTACTS option .

Create your own groups

We are already in the contacts menu. Again we look at the top of the window. Next to the option to add contacts we see that it says ADMINISTRATE. We will click there and we will get a new drop-down menu where we will click on the option ADMINISTRAR GRUPOS. Here we get a series of groups by default, such as friends, family, others. It is very likely that we want custom groups, so to create new groups we just have to click on the icon of a circle with a cross inside and we will create the group with the name that we want to give it. To finish your creation you just have to give APPLY .

Insert contacts in groups

Well, we already have contacts on one side and groups on the other. To enter the contacts in their corresponding group, we will place ourselves in the CONTACTS menu and we will see our address book. Next to each contact there is a box. We will mark the contacts that we want to group. The markings will be underlined in color. Then, we look again at the top of the screen and we see that in a bar with different actions it puts GROUPS . We click there and choose the group where we want to send the indicated contacts. We will repeat this action with each contact we want to put in a group.

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