Attaching a Business Card to a message

Outlook 2016
With Outlook, you can send a copy of a contact item in vCard format, a standard format for exchanging contact information. This allows the recipient to import the contact data into a contact management program, assuming that the recipient's program supports the vCard standard (as most do).

To share your contact information with others using a vCard, follow next steps:

   1.   In Outlook, open the People folder:

People folder icon in Navigation Bar Outlook 365
  or  
People folder in Navigation Bar Outlook 365

   2.   Select the contact item you want to send:

Contacts Outlook 365

   3.   Do one of the following:

  • On the Home, in the Share group, select the Forward Contact list and then choose As a Business Card:
    Forward Business Card in Outlook 365
  • Right-click the contact and choose Forward Contact -> As a Business Card:
    Forward Business Card in popup menu Outlook 365

Outlook inserts the vCard into the message:

Example of a New message Outlook 365

   4.   Complete the message as you normally would and click Send.

See also this tip in French: Joindre une carte de visite à un message.

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Attaching a Business Card to a message

Attaching a Business Card to a message

With Outlook, you can send a copy of a contact item in vCard format, a standard format for exchanging contact information. This allows the recipient to import the contact data into a contact management program, assuming that the recipient's program supports the vCard standard (as most do).
Attaching a Business Card to a message

Attaching a Business Card to a message

With Outlook, you can send a copy of a contact item in vCard format, a standard format for exchanging contact information. This allows the recipient to import the contact data into a contact management program, assuming that the recipient's program supports the vCard standard (as most do).
Sending a business card in every new message

Sending a business card in every new message

vCard, also known as an electronic business card in Outlook, contains contact information similar to paper business cards. You can exchange electronic business cards in vCard format via MMS or instant messaging and send it as an email attachment. If you contact a lot of new people and want them to have your or another person's contact information, you can send your vCard in every email. This lets recipients enter the information in their address book quickly and without errors by importing your electronic business card from the attachment.