how do I add new contacts to the list in Outlook?

A few days ago, I posted with a major venting about the "geeks" who have fun making things as non-intuitive as possible nowadays.  I was trying to figure out how to add a contact to my address book in Outlook 2016. As soon as I finished venting, I clicked "submit" and then noticed the address book that was in the tool bar in Outlook, in the regular bar, not in the new email screen. Now there are two places for the address book. But the one in the New Email screen does not let you add a contact. And that is where I had been beating my head against the wall. Anyway I quickly saw how to add a contact in the main address book in the main toolbar.

  So I apologize to the hard working guys and gals that are trying to make things better in the Microsoft world. I know it must be a pressure cooker. I must also qualify with my impression, that it does seem to me that things are getting a lot more convoluted than they were before, hence, less intuitive and hard to figure out.  Ever since I got Windows 2016 and Microsoft Home Office 2016, it's been really hard to work because of all the things that have to be relearned, and not always easily. I hope as we go along here, we can return to the concept of simplicity. Maybe trying to make a machine that does it all is really the reverse of what we need. Just some thoughts.

  Again sorry for the harsh words. I was blind in this case.

The answer is that it is impossible for to do.p

This does not work. I have an IPad 2, and there is no way any of us can see to do this.

This was so easy before.

It's 2016 now! And things have not improved, and in fact seem to be a whole lot worse than they were when this very right-on complaint was so astutely made. Wow! It's 2016 and six months ago I had an Outlook program that would let me add a new email contact with a click or two. Then I got the new computer with Windows 2016 and Microsoft Home and Office 2016. And now I have to go searching around the internet to figure out what crazy convoluted maze Microsoft has created to "help" me add a simple little contact to my address book.

  There isn't even a hint anywhere in the address book menu to let you in on the big secret about where the adding a contact program is hiding. And so far I haven't found the answer in the forums. Just getting started, though. so maybe in another hour of wasted time I will find the secret twisted path to the magic button.

   Totally beyond ludicrous!!!! The geeks that make up all this stuff must be having quite a good time impressing themselves with their ability to make sure nothing is intuitive any more and wastes as much consumer time as possible.  Is it fun to make sure that the people you are supposedly serving are as frustrated as possible? Maybe it's a power thing. Go figure.

I have recently been upgraded to Outlook from Hotmail. I have sent an email to a new contact and I want to add them to my contacts list. In Hotmail I just needed to click on 'add to contacts' but Outlook does not appear tp have this facility. Can anybody help?

In Outlook (windows 7) go into People and follow instructions from there.  I found it quite easy once I had read the instructions and managed to figure out what they were saying.  Good Luck