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Outlook: How to Send a Contact List

Outlook: How to Send a Contact List

December 19, 2022 by Mitch Bartlett 5 Comments

If you have created a local contact list (otherwise known as a distribution list) in Microsoft Outlook, you may want to share it by sending it to someone else. Here’s how you can send a contact list to another Outlook user.

These instructions are presenting using the Windows desktop client version of Outlook.

  1. Select the “Home” tab, then open the “Address Book“. You can also open the Address Book by pressing “CTRL” + “SHIFT” + “B“.
    Outlook Address Book
  2. Open the contact list you wish to share.
  3. While under the “Contact Group” tab, select the “Forward Group” option. In most cases you can choose “As an Outlook Contact“. If the person you are sending the list to is a non-Outlook user, you may want to use “In Internet Format (vCard)“.
    Outlook Forward Contact Group
  4. An email is created with the contact list attached. Compose your message, then send it off. Outlook Compose Contact Group

Once the user receives it, they can simply drag the file attachment from the email to “People” at the bottom of their screen to save it to their contacts. See “Outlook: Import Contact Group List” for more options.

I hope this post has helped you successfully send a contact list in Outlook. Still have questions? Drop a comment below.

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Comments

  1. MM says

    February 13, 2022 at 3:33 pm

    If I add / remove any of the group members and the person I shared the list previously.. will it also change the members as well? Or would I have to send them the updated distribution list?

  2. Kayla B. says

    June 23, 2020 at 12:49 pm

    I was having the same issue as Jonathan H. above. All you have to do is rename the contact group a slightly different name, and then it will let you use it.

  3. Sherrye says

    August 27, 2019 at 7:06 am

    Yes! This worked.

  4. Sharon Russell says

    November 6, 2018 at 11:23 am

    I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7. Prior to my upgrade, I was able to send a vCard/contact via email by a simple forward. It would come through to my yahoo. account with in a readable format. Now that I’m on 10, I’ve followed all the processes, procedures, our Information Technology’s suggestions…nothing works. They all come through winmail.dat

  5. Jonathan H says

    February 12, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    Does this method only work in the desktop “client” version of Outlook (i.e., installed on your computer’s hard drive)? Or should it also work with Outlook Web Access (OWA)? I ask because it didn’t seem to work for me in OWA.

    I was able to send a Contact Group list to a co-worker (within my organization) who uses Outlook Web Access, So far so good. He could open the message, and he could drag and drop the Contact Group onto the People button. But then, when he tried to compose a new message and enter the Contact Group name, OWA didn’t show anything. The Contact Group also didn’t show up in his People folder.

    Any suggestions? Any likely explanations?

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