See Let Outlook decide the best message format to use to learn how to configure Outlook Contacts to choose the best message format for Internet addresses. In most cases, you should "Let Outlook decide".
We have instructions for adding contact photos to a large number of Contacts at Batch Import Photos into Outlook Contacts
Do you want to add more than 3 email addresses to an Outlook contact? See Contacts with more than three email addresses for one solution.
To add more contacts folders to Outlook and enable the new folders as an address book, see Create a new Contact folder and enable it as an Outlook Address Book.
Printing & Merging
- Add Attachments and Set Email Fields During a Mail Merge
- Create a Letter to a Contact using VBA
- Create Envelopes and Letters using Word
- How to Print an Exchange Distribution List
- How to Print Outlook Address Books
- Inserting Addresses into Word Documents
- Printing Labels or Envelopes for Contacts
- Start a Word letter from an Outlook contact
Distribution Lists
- Add a Category to Contacts in a Contact Group
- Create a Contact Group from a List of Addresses
- Create a Contact Group to quickly send email to a multiple people
- Create Individual Contacts from a Distribution List
- Creating Distribution Lists from Address Lists
- Find the Distribution Lists a Contact Belongs to
- How to Forward a Contact Group
- Import a distribution list from the PAB
- Outlook and Exchange Distribution Lists
- Send Messages Using Additional Office 365 Exchange Addresses
- Use VBA to Create a List of Exchange GAL Members
- Using Categories for Dynamic Distribution Lists
- Using Large Distribution Lists
Address Book Display
- Contacts are missing when you click the To button
- Converting from a MAPI Address Book to Contacts
- Copy GAL Addresses to Outlook and Make the GAL Portable
- Display Public Folder and Other Contacts in the Address Book
- Enable BCM Contacts as Outlook Address Book
- Enabling the Contacts Folder as an Address Book
- Hiding Global Address Book Fields
- Imported Addresses are Missing from Address Book
- Make the Address Book show only e-mail addresses, not fax numbers
- Outlook Address Book Search Order
- Outlook Contacts, Address Book, and Autocomplete
- Outlook's Address Book is Empty
- Quick Steps Address Book Bug (Fixed)
- Understanding Outlook's Auto-Complete Cache (*.NK2)
- Use VBA to Create a List of Exchange GAL Members
Name Resolution
Outlook use both auto-complete and auto-resolution to aid you in addresses messages.
See:
- Can you control which addresses are listed in autocomplete?
- Contact Groups aren’t listed in autocomplete
- Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not valid.
- How to delete Autocomplete’s Other Suggestions
- Moving Outlook's auto-complete address list to a new account
- Suggested Contacts and Auto-Complete Lists
- The (good) Autocomplete list is back
- Understanding Outlook's Auto-Complete Cache (*.NK2)
- Using Automatic name checking or Autocomplete
To remove a name from the auto-complete list in Outlook 2002 and up, press Delete when the name pops up as you type into the To box. To clean up the entire list, see: How to reset the nickname and the automatic completion caches in Outlook (MSKB)
Contact Form
More from Outlookcode.com:
Microsoft Outlook Contact Forms -- quirks and limitations
Creating a "New Fax to Contact" Action
Changing the Display Order for Outlook Contacts
Required Categories Contact Form
Import/Export
- Automatically Add Addresses to Outlook Contacts
- Converting Addresses to or from Outlook
- Converting from a MAPI Address Book to Contacts
- Import vCards into Outlook
- Transfer Outlook Contacts to Kindle Fire and Android tablets
Sharing
Other
To calculate the age of an Outlook contact
How to calculate the age of a contact and display it in the view or on the contact form.
Import a distribution list from the PAB
Please note that personal address book (PAB) was deprecated, beginning with Outlook 2002, and their use is not supported in Outlook 2010. We highly recommend that anyone who still uses a PAB should import the contents into their Contacts folder. While you can't use the PAB in Outlook 2010, you can import the PAB into
Choose Which Address List is Shown First When You Click To
How to change which address list (Contact folder) is shown first when you open the Address Book or click To.
Print Contacts and Contact Photos
Use VBA to create a Word document containing the selected contact's name, address, phone number and contact photo.
Outlook's Linked Contacts
Outlook 2013 has a neat feature where all contacts for a person are linked together and the aggregate data from all of the linked contacts is displayed on a contact card, with the source of the data listed on the contact card.
To Link an Outlook Item to a Contact
Beginning with Microsoft Outlook 2000, linking between Contacts and other items in improved - you can link contacts using the Contact linking field and don't need to insert shortcuts in the item. The instructions below are for linking appointments, but you can use them to link any type of Outlook item to Contacts. Beginning with
Contacts are Grouping in Two Groups of (none)
We occasionally get complaints from people who are using a group by view on Contacts and they have two groups of "(none)", often when grouping by Company or Country (because they are common fields to group by), but grouping by almost any field can result in two different (none) groups. This can happen with contacts
Display Public Folder and Other Contacts in the Address Book
How to display Microsoft Exchange server Public folders and shared Contact folders as Outlook Address Books.
How to Forward a Contact Group
How to forward an Outlook Contact Group (distribution list). When you forward the list in Internet Format, a text file containing a list of members. T he recipient can copy the member list from the text file and create their won contact group.
Find the Distribution Lists a Contact Belongs to
How to use VBA to create a list of the distribution lists (contact groups) your Outlook Contacts belong to.