Outlook Contact Group Sharing & Importing

Overview:

Sharing Contact Groups can be a great time saver when multiple people need to continuously e-mail the same groups of individuals (for more details see Sharing Contact Groups below). You can easily import a Contact Group that was e-mailed to you as an attachment.
 

Sharing Contact Groups

You can easily share your Contact Groups by attaching them to e-mail. There are several ways of attaching Contact Groups. Below is the fastest way to share a Contact Group.

  1. Start a new e-mail message.
  2. In Outlook, display the People folder.
  3. Locate and drag the desired Contact Group onto the new e-mail. Outlook will attach the Contact Group to the e-mail in the form of a vCard.

  4. Complete and send the e-mail as you would any other.
 

Forwarding Contact Groups

  1. In Outlook, open the Contacts folder and select the contact item you want to send:
  2. Do one of the following:
    • On the ribbon, Home, in theShare group, select the Forward Contact list and then choose As an Outlook Contact.
    • Right-click the contact and choose Forward Contact -> As an Outlook Contact.
 

Importing Contact Groups

  1. Open the e-mail containing the Contact Group.
  2. In Outlook, open the Contacts view.
  3. Drag the Contact Group attachment from the e-mail message onto the desired Contacts folder. Outlook automatically creates the contact entries for you:

 

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