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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="contacts"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.5.5" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-04-27" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-02-27" status="final"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.15" date="2015-01-28" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

    <desc>Combine information for a contact from multiple sources.</desc>
  </info>

<title>Link and unlink contacts</title>

<section id="link-contacts">
  <title>Link contacts</title>

  <p>You can combine duplicate contacts from your local address book and online
  accounts into one <app>Contacts</app> entry. This feature helps you keep your
  address book organized, with all details about one contact in one place.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Enable <em>selection mode</em> by pressing the tick button above the
      contact list.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>A checkbox will appear next to each contact. Tick the checkboxes next
      to the contacts that you want to merge.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Link</gui> to link the selected
      contacts.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</section>

<section id="unlink-contacts">
  <title>Unlink contacts</title>

  <p>You may want to unlink contacts if you accidentally linked contacts which
  should not be linked.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Select the contact you wish to unlink from your list of contact.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Edit</gui> in the top-right corner of
      <app>Contacts</app>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Linked Accounts</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Unlink</gui> to unlink the entry from the
      contact.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Close the window once you have finished unlinking the entries.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Done</gui> to finish editing the
      contact.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</section>

</page>
