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Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Edit/Delete a contact
Add personal information such as birthdate to a contact or delete a contact from your address book.
Important: The contacts you manage within Thunderbird are not saved to your Office 365 account. They can only be used within Thunderbird. Plus, any contacts you have created using a client that is connected via Exchange/Active Sync (Outlook | Apple Mail | Outlook Web App) cannot be accessed via Thunderbird.
- Open Thunderbird
- Select Address Book
- On the left side of the Address Book window, there is a list of Address Books, these will include your Personal Address Book, your Collected Addresses book and other linked address books such as Mac OS X Address book on a Mac.
- Highlight the Address Book with the contact you wish to edit/delete
- Click to highlight the contact you wish to edit from the list on the right
- Select Properties
- Add information in one or more of the available tabs Contact, Private, Work, Other, Chat or Photo
- When you are done, click OK
- Exit the Address Book window to return to your Inbox
- Click to highlight the contact you wish to delete from the list on the right
- Select Delete from the top menu
- Select OK to confirm
- Exit the Address Book window to return to your Inbox
Turn off Collected Addresses
Thunderbird automatically adds every address you email to the Collected Addresses book. To turn this feature off, follow the steps below.
- Open Thunderbird
- Click on the three horizontal lines next to the search bar to open the drop down menu
- Select Options (On a Mac, Select Preferences).
- From the top tabs, select Composition
- In the Composition Tab, select Addressing
- Uncheck the box next to Automatically add outgoing email addresses
- Close the box