Using One Contacts Folder

The majority of Outlook users have just one address book: their Contacts folder. It's simple, with all contacts together in one folder. Using categories makes it easy to use the contact records to address email and to find a specific contact.

When you use the Contacts folder, you have three ways to use the addresses in it for email, as listed here in the recommended order of use:

  • Type names, or partial names, in the To, CC, or BCC field to use automatic name checking (commonly called AutoResolve) and suggest names (AutoComplete).

  • Select contacts from the Contacts folder and choose Actions, New Message to Contact. One email message is created with the email addresses of the selected contacts added to the To field.

  • Select ...

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