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# Contacts Overview

Here's an overview of the Contacts section of our software. We'll show you how to add, export, search, and filter through your contact records to stay organized.

**Step 1: Access your Contacts section.**

* Navigate to Contacts.
* The main page displays a list of all your contacts and basic information like name, phone number, email, when they were created, last activity, and tags.
* By dropping down the columns menu at the top, you can update which columns are displayed.

![](https://d29l98y0pmei9d.cloudfront.net/article/4783/c4aac2cf-86e0-4d6f-ae21-feffa43c99d9.png)

**Step 2: How to Search and Filter through your contacts.**

* You can also use the Quick Search feature to do a quick search by name, email, business name, tag, or phone number.
* Under More Filters you can Filter through contacts using a variety of specific options including Tag is \_\_\_, City is Not \_\_\_, Phone Number Field is Empty, and more…
  * **NOTE:** Check out our Smartlist video/article to learn more in depth about how to use and save these filters. You can use multiple at once to filter out Contacts very specifically.

![](https://d29l98y0pmei9d.cloudfront.net/article/4783/db61d623-7732-49bd-b1a5-d8cde6af1f67.png)

**Step 3: Additional Actions**

* Using these Actions icons at the top, you have several options for adding or removing contacts, and applying bulk actions. Our Bulk Actions tutorial gives a full overview of each of these actions. The most foundational are:
  * **Add contact:** manually add an individual contact record
  * **Export Contacts:** select a list of contacts to export to your computer (the file will download as a .csv Excel file)
  * **Import Contacts:** Add a list of contacts into our software, using a .csv file

![](https://d29l98y0pmei9d.cloudfront.net/article/4783/79820c16-596c-40f1-88ec-4c4f23d53a50.png)


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