Page 551 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Settings. There, staring you in the face, are names of the accounts you’ve

set up already.

To add a new one, use the “Add an account” link. Tap the kind of account
you want: iCloud, Google, or whatever. Enter your account information,
and boom—you’re done. The People app is now synced with your online

accounts. Change information in one place and it’s also changed in the
other.

You can repeat the process to add more accounts; in fact, you can even have

multiple accounts for certain types (like Google and Microsoft email
accounts).

It’s important to understand that you’re actually linking those internet

services to your Microsoft account. You have to do that only once, and then
all your Windows starter apps—Mail, Calendar, People, and so on—can use
their information.

The big payoff comes when you sign into another Windows 10 machine. To
your delight and amazement, you’ll see that your address book is already
filled in with all your contacts and accounts. Progress!

Even after you’ve hooked up some accounts like this, you’re not stuck with
wading through the addresses of a million people you don’t care about:

Hide an account. If you hit (top right) and then , you get the
dialog box shown in Figure 8-24. Here you can opt to hide the

contacts in certain accounts (or those without phone numbers, for
when you’re using People as a phone book).