Contacts in Outlook 365 2016 2013 2010 2007

Sending a business card in every new message

In some situation you want to send your vCard in every e-mail. This lets recipients enter the information in their address book quickly and without errors.

How to change the default Address Book

This option controls which address book you see when you open the Address Book (via clicking Ctrl+Shift+B) and when you click the To, Cc, or Bcc buttons when composing e-mails.

Attaching Business Cards to all outgoing messages

In some situation you may want to send your vCard in every message. This lets recipients enter the information in their address book quickly and without errors.

Attaching a Business Card to a message

With Outlook, you can send a copy of a contact item in vCard format, a standard format for exchanging contact information. This allows the recipient to import the contact data into a contact management program, assuming that the recipient's program supports the vCard standard (as most do).

How to import a Contact Group sent you as an attachment

In Outlook 2003 you wouldn't find a Contact Group because it's called a Distribution List in this version of Outlook, for more details see How to import a Distribution List sent you as an attachment.

How to import a Distribution List sent you as an attachment

Sharing distribution lists can be a great timesaver when multiple people need to continuously e-mail the same groups of individuals (for more details see Sharing Distribution Lists). You can easily import a distribution list that was e-mailed to you as an attachment.

Sharing contact groups in Outlook

In Outlook 2003 you wouldn't find a Contact Group because it's called a Distribution List in this version of Outlook, for more details see Sharing Distribution Lists.

Sharing Distribution Lists

You can easily share you distribution lists by attaching them to e-mail. There are two ways of attaching distribution list: drag-and-drop and the Attach Item command.

How to create a contact group in Outlook

In Outlook 2003 you wouldn't find a Contact Group because it's called a Distribution List in this version of Outlook, for more details see How to create a New Distribution List.

How to create a New Distribution List

It is a pretty time consuming task to send message to multiple recipients at once. Fortunately, if you regularly send e-mails to the group of people, you can create a distribution list and send them an e-mail with just a few clicks.