Posted by HisHughness on 10/14/13 10:53am
Msg #488047
Yahoo! Bless its souless, incompetent #@%&#@ heart ...
... has finally gotten around this morning to switching me to its new and "improved" format.
I cannot find any way to access my contacts list to send emails. I have double-clicked on everything in sight. I have right-clicked on the same spots. I have spit on my hands and spun around three times. Nothing works.
Have any other unfortunate Yahoo! victims found a way to add contacts list addresses in the "To" window of an outgoing email? Frustrated people want to know.
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Reply by jba/fl on 10/14/13 11:02am
Msg #488049
Start typing - it should be an auto fill.
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Reply by HisHughness on 10/14/13 11:09am
Msg #488051
Thanks, but that doesn't help if I want to send ...
... to several people on my contacts list. I can find no way, as in the old Yahoo! to click on a contact to add it to the "To" box.
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Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/14/13 11:11am
Msg #488053
Just keep typing Hugh, separating people by a comma
if it's in your contact list the name and/or address should auto-populate
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Reply by HisHughness on 10/14/13 11:31am
Msg #488055
Re: Just keep typing Hugh, separating people by a comma
Okay, obviously I am not making myself clear.
If I have a 3rd cousin in Belize whom I email only every couple of years, and I want to send out a family blast, and I just don't remember he's part of the family, how am I supposed to remember to start typing his name for the address to autofill? Previously, I could click on a plus sign, and my entire contact list would appear, from which I could click on everyone I wished to send an email, then I'd click "Done" and they all appeared in the address line.
What you're telling me is that I have to begin typing every single contact, and Yahoo! will autofill. That not only sucks, it makes no sense.
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Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/14/13 11:39am
Msg #488056
Okay..sorry - now I get it... n/m
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Reply by Darlin_AL on 10/14/13 11:53am
Msg #488059
tried checking yr Oper System site for update/dwnld fr yah ? n/m
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Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/14/13 11:59am
Msg #488061
Or importing contacts from another Yahoo account
Of course, there's always gmail too 
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Reply by HisHughness on 10/14/13 12:14pm
Msg #488064
Re: Or importing contacts from another Yahoo account
I haven't LOST my Yahoo! contacts; they are still there, in all their inestimable glory. I just can't access the contacts LIST when I am trying to send an email to multiple addresses. Importing my contacts list from my gmail account wouldn't help; that would simply mean I now have more contacts in Yahoo! that I can't access.
Have any other Yahoo! users had the same problem, and have you found a solution?
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Reply by Lee/AR on 10/14/13 12:41pm
Msg #488069
>Compose, double click on the 'To', (contact list should
open up in a big window, click on those you want and then scroll to bottom of list and click 'Done'.
This should take you back to your e-mail and everyone should show up listed in the 'To' field.
At least, that's how my Yahoo is working 'today'.
Also on far left panel way down the list, there is a "Contacts" folder.
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Reply by Notarysigner on 10/14/13 12:43pm
Msg #488071
Re: Or importing contacts from another Yahoo account
From the "compose " screen...to the right of the "to " window is a plus sign ( + ).
Select it and a window will come up with "select contacts". Check the boxes then below select
"done".
I was able to put 31 contacts in the "to" window from my contacts.
Make sure you are using ATT.net and Not ATT.com
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Reply by Linda Juenger on 10/14/13 12:51pm
Msg #488074
Hugh, the "To" should be blue. Click on it and contacts
come up.
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Reply by HisHughness on 10/14/13 1:40pm
Msg #488078
EUREKA! PRAISE BE TO THE LORD, WHO IS GOOD!
I have found it! It is nigh unto finding Salvation itself, and a Mighty River of Joy has flooded my soul. Let us sing praises to Bill Gates, and Michael Dell, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeffrey Bezos and the other Lords of the Cyberworld, for the blessings they have bestowed and the evils they have warded.
Thank you, Lee. Thank you, Linda.
Does this mean I can no longer tell Lee his politics stink like a dead rat on a sidewalk in August? If so, I may want to go back to my foundering ignorance.
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Reply by Lee/AR on 10/14/13 1:47pm
Msg #488081
Yep, that's exactly what it means... and you stop picking
on 'dumb' Arkies, too. You can't go back to your foundering ignorance because you can't 'unknow' something. LOL Glad to have helped solve your problem because these 'improvements' drive me nuts, too. Hope your surgery goes well and you are soon back to your normal feisty, if misguided, self.
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Reply by Yoli/CA on 10/14/13 1:42pm
Msg #488080
Hugh, the "To" should be blue. Click on it and contacts
appear for you to chose.
Yeah, I have a Yahoo account I never use. Just accessed it and Linda Juenger is correct.
Click on "compose" ... "to" is blue, click on it (I just single-clicked and it worked) and contacts pop up.
Hope this helps!
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Reply by MikeC/TX on 10/14/13 7:33pm
Msg #488134
Re: Hugh, the "To" should be blue. Click on it and contacts
The other way to do this is to click on the "Contacts" link on the left side of the screen (in the second grouping, below Messenger and Calendar). Check off the ones you want to include in the email and then click the "Email Contacts" button. All those addresses are added to the header, and you're ready to start typing your words of wisdom...
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Reply by MW/VA on 10/14/13 3:07pm
Msg #488098
It's probably time to switch to gmail. I still use my
ATT email address (it's powered by Yahoo now). I keep meaning to switch, but it's easier to stay where I am.
Glad everyone was able to help you out. ;-)
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