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ORGANIZATION STATION: ELEMENTS' CONTACT BOOK
The Organizer makes it easy to call up the addresses of people you regularly email by keeping a
Contact Book. Anytime you send email to a new recipient, you first have to add the address to the
Contact Book by clicking the Edit Contacts button (the silhouette) in the Email Attachments pan-
el. (You can also get to the Contact Book by choosing Edit→Contact Book in the main Organizer
window.)
Once you've got the Contact Book window open, click the New Contact button to add an address.
Then you can type in a name, email address, phone number, and other contact info. To edit or de-
lete a contact, just select it in the window's list, and then click the relevant button.
You can also create groups of names in the Contact Book, for times when you want to send the
same photo to several people at once. To do this, click New Group, enter a name for the group, se-
lect entries in the Contacts list, and then click Add. The people's names go into the Members list.
To remove a name from the group, select it in the Members list, and then click Remove.
In Windows, Elements makes it easy to coordinate the Contact Book with your existing address
book. You can choose to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, as well as
any that you've saved as vCards (a digital business card format) in other programs. In the Contact
Book window, just click Import and then choose your source.
You can also export your Contact Book addresses as vCards to use them in other programs. This
is another feature that isn't available in the Mac version of Elements, although OS X's Contacts
app can import and export vCards for you.
PDF Slideshows
You can also email a group of photos as a slideshow. Elements uses the popular PDF format,
which lets your recipients page through each slide using the free, ubiquitous Adobe Reader
program available from
http://get.adobe.com/reader
(or, on a Mac, in OS X Preview, if they
prefer). They just open the PDF and view the photos one by one.
To create a slideshow from the Organizer, select the photos you want to include, and then go
to Share→PDF Slide Show. In the PDF Slide Show panel that appears, Elements offers you
size and quality choices, just as you have for sending photos as email attachments. Name the
slideshow, click Next, and then choose recipients and enter a message, if you like, and then
click Next again. Elements generates a standard email message with the slideshow attached.
At this point, Elements displays a dialog box letting you know the message's file size and ap-
proximately how long it will take your recipients to download it. As with regular attach-
ments, pay attention to the size of the PDF that Elements has created to make sure you won't
