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Contacts and Address Book

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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.

Also see Business Contact Manager FAQ, Contacts Tools, and Contact Management Tools

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

  • Changing Outlook's Business Card layout
  • Show the Home Address on a Contact Form by Default

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

  • Shared Address Books
  • Sharing Outlook Calendar and Contacts

Other

  • Combine Duplicate Contact Items
  • How to Change the Mapping Service used by Outlook's Map Link
  • Problem: Opening a vCard Crashes Outlook
  • To Link an Outlook Item to a Contact
  • To Log a Phone Call to a Contact
Contacts and Address Book was last modified: October 10th, 2023 by Slipstick

One or more members of this contact group cannot be found

How to fix shared contact groups that error with "One or more members of this contact group cannot be found."

Change the address book sort order in Address Book options

Outlook Address Book Search Order

When Outlook resolves email addresses, it searches your address book for potential matches, checking each address list until it finds at least one match, then it stops when it reaches the end of that list. You can change the order Outlook searches the address lists.

Using Large Distribution Lists

My mail provider allows me to use distribution lists with up to 500 members but when I use Outlook 2007, I can only send to about 100 people. Is there any way I can send more than 100 emails from distribution list? No, you can't use larger distribution lists with Outlook if Outlook says "No".  

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Contact Linking in Outlook 2007 (and up)

How to enable Contact Linking in Outlook 2007 and create new appointments with contacts.

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