Creating contact lists in Outlook on the web

 Objective

How to create and edit contact lists in webmail. Contact lists are a way for you to communicate with multiple people at once.

Creating a contact list allows storage of a list of people or groups to send email. The list is used to send the same message to multiple contacts without entering each contact separately in the message. The list is saved in the Contacts folder. Lists that are created in your Contacts folder aren't available to others.

 Audience

  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff

 Environment  

  • Outlook on the web

 Procedure

Creating contact lists

  1. In the navigation pane, click People.



  2. Click the down arrow next to New contact and select New contact list.
  3. Under Contact list name, type a name for the list. 
  4. Under Add email addresses, type the names or email addresses of the people you want in the list and click Add after each person.
  5. Under Description, type a description of the list.
  6. Click Create

Editing members in existing lists

  1. In the navigation pane, click People.



  2. Click Your contact lists.
  3. Select the list to edit.
  4. Click Edit for the list.
  5. Enter the desired email address and click Add or remove an email address by clicking on the X next to the address.
  6. Click Save when finished editing.
Print Article

Details

Article ID: 60
Created
Fri 5/20/22 1:59 PM
Modified
Mon 1/22/24 3:39 PM

Related Articles (1)

How to create contact groups in Outlook for Windows.