Contacts in Outlook 2013
How to add Social Network accounts
Outlook 2013 has a new feature of integrating social networking accounts, a new People view presents
most of a contact's information in an easily consumed view.
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 import a Contact Group sent you as an attachment
Sharing Contact Groups can be a great timesaver when multiple people need to continuously e-mail the
same groups of individuals (for more details see Sharing Contact Groups). You can easily import
a Contact Group that was e-mailed to you as an attachment.
Sharing contact groups in Outlook
You can easily share your Contact Groups by attaching them to e-mail. There are several ways of
attaching Contact Groups.
How to create an Outlook Address Book
The address book is usually created when you create a Personal Folders profile, but only one address book
can be defined for the profile. Fortunately you can easily create additional address books out of the
profile for your own needs.
How to create a contact group in Outlook
If you regularly send e-mails to the group of people, you can create a Contact Group and send them an
e-mail with just a few clicks.
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).
Improved AutoComplete
Outlook uses two features to resolve and complete names entered into email messages: AutoComplete and
Autoresolution.