Just got windows 8 on anew laptop (don't like it) but I can't work out how to add an email address direct from an email into the 'people' app. I can right click the address but then  get options to move the email, pin to start, sync, or mark as unread. All I want to do is that contact from the email to my contacts.
Any help please?

Another newbie with Windows 8.  What's not to love.  :-)

Sorry, I'm being facetious.  I am bumbling along very slowly, and haven't even got that far.  We definitely have another CD member using it, so she may be able to suggest how to resolve. 

I had no choice, my old PC died.  Love the quad processer, and how everything is so fast.  But getting my head round things is really difficult.  I don't even have a mobile that goes online.  Don't actually want one, could never afford it.

Not much help to you, but I do sympathise.

Thought it might have just been me! I am normally quite good at technology and computers but this is driving me mad. Couldn't even find how to shut down and hate that bar thingy that you have to find at the side of the screen which then disappears when you try to navigate towards it!
The adding of email addresses to the people app direct fom an email is still bugging me and I can't find the answer.

If you press the "windows" key and C together the side bar comes out.

Can't help with the email problem as my email account keeps addys of any I send automatically or I copy and paste the first time.

I have to admit I tend to use very little of the new Windows 8 features if I can avoid it.

Sorry I am not going to be of any help because when I bought a new PC recently I refused to have Windows 8 and insisted on 7 and reading your and many others posts I am so glad I did.

Only thing I can suggest is you may be able to load Windows 7 and use that as your OS because 7 is designed like the earlier systems and you can recognise the display as it resembles what you are used to - think the main problem with 8 is that it seems to be designed for touch screens and not keyboards so OK on a phone or pad but not much use in the office.

I'm not going to be much help either :-( In the end my daughter put a different program on for emails which isn't brilliant but is better than using Windows 8 as I couldn't work it out at all. Still not a fan of W8 as I find it really complicated to use and so many times I am in the middle of doing something and the screen just whizzes off to something else - obviously I am touching some key in error but no idea which one or why.

I think W8 was produced on the assumption that we all have smart phones etc and the operating system would thus be simple to use - but I only have an ancient mobile phone that has no internet access so don't really understand the apps business and finding something that used to be easy to find - such as My Computer - is now a guessing game and more often than not I give up before actually finding it. The other thing that drives me mad is that Sun on a blue background that is something to do with your pictures - it tells me I have to change the settings in order to view my photos but I have no idea how to do that or even where to begin even looking.

W8 may be progress for some but for me it's a huge step backwards and I can't seem to get to grips with it at all and the more I use it the less I want to :-)

>I think W8 was produced on the assumption that we all have smart phones etc and the operating system would thus be simple to use

EXACTLY!  But not everyone wants to be able to walk around with an iphone all the time.  I see people who can't live without it.  Yet I really can't see the need.  I am far too busy to want to be online all day long!  It is becoming an addiction.  Guess people don't see that while they are online all the time, life happens.

I have a smart phone and an ipad but this windows 8 is still causing me to get fed up with it, I don't find it as easy as the ipad or my galaxy phone.
Oh well, for me it's a work laptop so won't be doing pictures or music on it thank goodness but emails are a must and can't believe what was a simple task of adding an email address to the contacts/people app has now been made impossible as I can't do it.

I have a smart phone and an ipad but this windows 8 is still causing me to get fed up with it, I don't find it as easy as the ipad or my galaxy phone.
Oh well, for me it's a work laptop so won't be doing pictures or music on it thank goodness but emails are a must and can't believe what was a simple task of adding an email address to the contacts/people app has now been made impossible as I can't do it.