How to Add Contacts in Outlook 2016?

How to add contacts in Outlook 2016? One way to store the information about the people in an organized way. Contact of a person contains information like the name, email address, date of birth, home address, mobile number. Once you saved the contact of a person in Outlook 2016 and typing first few letters of the person’s name in an email will be enough for Outlook to recognize the persons email address and it will fill in rest of the email address for you. Even you can call the person without knowing his phone number.There are two ways to add contact in the address book they are:

• Add a contact from an email message
• Add a contact from scratch

Steps to Add Contacts in Outlook 2016

Method 1 of 2: Add a contact from an email message

Step 1: Open Outlook 2016 on your screen and then open a message you can notice the person’s name in one these lines:  From:, To:, Cc:, or Bcc:.

Step 2: You have to right-click on the name it will pop up some options. Search for “Add to Outlook Contacts” among the options and click on it.

Step 3: A new window will be opened. Fill all the details that you have of the corresponding person. The Outlook will automatically fill the email address in the Email box and also the other details that are provided in the message in their appropriate boxes. If the contact belongs to your organization then the window might contain their title, department, phone, and office boxes also.

Method 2 of 2:Add a contact from scratch

Step 1: Click on the people button that is present on the left corner of the screen as shown in the figure. Click on it.

Step 2: The ribbon below the Quick access toolbar will show a tab “New Contact” under Home tab in New group. Click on New Contact.

Step 3: It will open a untitled-Contact window. Fill all the information about the person. You can see that you can also add a profile photo and You can also add some “Notes” about the contact.

Step 4: If it is the only contact that you want to add the click on “Save & Close”. If you want to add some other contacts then click on “Save & New”, it will prevent the overhead of opening of the new Contact window again and again.

If you want to add another contact that belongs to the same company as of previous, then click on “Contact from the Same Company”.

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