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Sharing contact data with others

Sharing contact data with others

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Sharing contact data with others

- A nice feature of Outlook is the ability to share contact data. This makes it much easier than to risk misinformation when having to retype data manually. We have a few options when choosing to share our contacts. The first one is we can share an entire contact folder. I can right click the contacts folder, select share, and then choose share contacts. It will open up a new email, in which I am going to send out a sharing invitation. I can type in who I'd like to invite to share my contact data. I'll click the send button, and it's reminding me that this is, in fact, going to share my contacts folder with Leslie. It is also letting me know that her permission level will be a reviewer. That is, she can only read my contacts. She can't make any changes to them. I'll click yes, and my sharing message has been sent. I can also choose to share my contacts, but mark one person as private. I can select a contact in this contacts list and click the private button. This will mark this…

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