--- title: Preview & Edit Recipients description: Choose Preview recipients (bottom of page) to see exactly who you are sending to. The top portion of Preview Recipients calculates the number of contacts for each communication method. 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[Messages](https://support.catapultcms.com/connect?hsLang=en#messages) # Preview & Edit Recipients Choose **Preview recipients** (bottom of page) to see exactly who you are sending to. ![image-20200724-224028.png](https://support.catapultcms.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/image-20200724-224028-1.png) ### Statistics table The top portion of Preview Recipients calculates the number of contacts for each communication method. - The **Recipients** column (green) counts how many can receive your message via phone call, email, text, etc. - The **Opted Out** column (yellow) counts any contacts who chose to stop receiving communications via CatapultCONNECT. Contacts may choose to opt out of a particular communication method or all communication. - The **Invalid** column (red) counts any contacts without a particular means of communication. In the example above, two (2) recipients do not have a valid email in the system. ### Search recipients The center portion of Preview Recipients lets you search. You can search by the contact’s name, email, or phone number. You can even search by language or your imported list name. ![image-20200724-224222.png](https://support.catapultcms.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/image-20200724-224222-1.png) ### List of contacts The lower portion of Preview Recipients shows each contact by name and their means of communication. If a contact does not have a valid email, text, or phone number you can see those marked in red. If you hover over a contact’s name it shows the language of that contact. For email and phone number hover over the respective icons. ### Manually remove contacts Choose the “x” next to a persons name to remove them from your recipient list (see red outline 1 below). If you accidentally remove someone, choose the circular arrows to restore them again (see red outline 2 below). ![image-20200724-225615.png](https://support.catapultcms.com/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/image-20200724-225615-1.png) ### Next After you finish previewing your contacts, you may want to [adjust your filter](http://support.catapultk12.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051508051-build-a-message-filter), or [custom recipients](http://support.catapultk12.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051018932-create-custom-recipients). 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