In addition to regular email functions, using Outlook is a great advantage for users of all kinds, thanks in large part to the wide variety of tools that are available.
Among the most useful functions of which it has Outlook, we can highlight the access to contacts. This tool will allow you to save email addresses and phone numbers in your email account.
On this note, we will teach you step by step how to view and manage your contact book, as well as how to perform certain actions and settings to organize them optimally.
Learn how to view your Outlook email contacts
The ability to view Outlook contacts, from any of your devices, is one of the most essential functions for any email user who uses their account as a data backup method. In this sense, Outlook provides its users with access from all their presentations.
That is, you will have the possibility to manage your contacts, both in the mobile app and in the desktop web portal:
From the phone
Viewing the contacts of Outlook from the mobile it forms one of the most necessary functions, since it represents a large part of the portability provided by the mobile app of the mail service.
To be able to see your Outlook contacts from your mobile application, you just have to follow this process:
- Launch the Outlook app on your device.
- Select the magnifying glass icon, located on the bottom toolbar.
- Click on access “Contacts”.
From now on, you will be able to view in your contact book all the elements that you have stored in your Outlook account. From this point, you can access the information of these contacts to communicate with them, or dispose of it in any way necessary.
From the computer
Since the most common way to use Outlook is through the web app, it is necessary to know how to perform in this to find the information you are looking for.
In the particular case of contacts, the process is really simple:
- Log into your Outlook account.
- Select the people icon, which you will see in the side toolbar, on the left side.
Once here you will be able to access the information of your contacts, as well as perform On these all the actions you think necessary, that is, you will have the possibility to edit, rearrange, move or delete them.
How to create contact groups in Outlook to better organize them?
Formation of contact groups is among the most effective organizational methods, since they allow you to group all the members of your address book into a specific set, assigned to a special category. In this sense, Outlook offers us two methods for creating a group of contacts: Through the grouping function of the web portal, and the creation of groups by categories, only possible on the PC client.
Go for it:
From the web application
Regardless of what service you are using, creating a group of contacts is one of the most effective methods to organize your agenda, since it brings together in a single list the contacts that are, in some way, related to each other, either for work, family and a common group of friends.
The procedure to create a new contact group is as follows:
- From your Outlook inbox, click on the people icon, which you will see in the left toolbar, to open the contacts.
- Choose the option “New contact” and then in the drop-down menu, click “New group”.
- Enter a name for the group and the necessary information.
- Press in “To create”.
- Select names or emails of the contacts you want to add to the group.
- click in “Add”.
Through the categories
Through this versatile feature, you will have the possibility to create groups of contacts quickly and easily through the categories that are assigned to each item in your contact list, giving you access to groups organized by category.
Let’s see:
- In the Outlook desktop app, you enter the tab “Search tools.”
- Select “Categories” and click on the category that you want to filter.
- Select all contacts assigned with this category, by clicking on one of them by pressing “CTRL + A”.
- Right click on the selected contacts, and tap “Copy to folder” in the drop-down menu.
- click in option “New folder”.
- Enter the folder name and save it in the contact folder of the application Outlook pressing “Okay”.
- Login in the tab “Beginning” and click on “New group of contacts ”.
- Enter the name of the group where appropriate, and follow the path “Add members> From Outlook contacts.”
- Choose “Directory” and enters the folder created for contact information.
- Select all contacts and click on “Members”.
- click on the button “Okay”.
- Returning to the window “Contact groups”, you must click on “Keep”.
Through this procedure, We now have a new group of contacts created from the categories assigned to each of them. We can repeat the procedure as many times as necessary to use different categories to create new groups.