Outlook Contacts Sharing Contacts
Sharing Contacts is not generally a good idea. It does have a place in the work setting. If you are working for a company that has several hundred employees, and each of those employees has Contact information, you will save a lot of time by sharing or requesting a share of Contacts for the company. Instead of having to write in over two hundred new Contacts, your shared Contacts will give you instant access to all of the company Contacts. Practice only moving to and through the "Sharing Contacts" item--do not share your Contacts with any other person. After you have finished move to the link titled "BACK" at the bottom of this page to go to the "Outlook Lessons" web page.
1. Open Outlook.
2. Press Control 3 to go to "Contacts."
3. Hit the Alt key one time.
4. Right arrow to the "Folder" tab of the ribbon.
5. Down arrow one time.
6. Hit the Tab key again-and-again until you hear "Share Contacts."
7. Hit the Enter key one time and the "Sharing..." form pops up and you are in the "To" edit box.
8. Type the email address of someone you want to share your Contacts with, or someone you are requesting to have share their Contacts.
9. Hit the Tab key one time and your "Subject" edit box is already filled out with words like "Sharing Invitation" followed by your name, and finally the word "Contacts."
10. Tab one time and you will be on a check box that is not checked and says "Request permission to view recipient's Contacts folder."
11. Tab one time and you will be on a check box that is checked that says "Allow recipient to view your Contacts folder."
12. Tab one time and you will hear your name and the word "People."
13. Tab one time and you will hear "Microsoft Exchange Contacts."
14. Tab one time and you will be in a large box where you can type a note to the person you have indicated in the "To" box.
15. Do not do this, but if you were really going to send and close this request, you would press Alt s.