What Are Contacts?

One of the most used features of Outlook is contacts. You can store information, notes, and attachments in contacts for a person or an organization. You can store a wide variety of information about a contact within Outlook, including addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, website addresses, children’s names, birthdays, anniversaries, notes, and company names. Outlook 2007 even enables you to associate a photo with each individual contact record and view a business card for that contact.

Outlook uses contacts for a variety of tasks. You can track activities associated with contacts including emails, meetings, tasks, and journal entries. Your Contacts folder is used as an email address book, enabling you to address ...

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