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You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
Getting started with Contacts
You can save important information about people, such as mailing addresses, birthdays, and companies. You can import contacts from other programs, and more.
What is a vCard?
A vCard contains contact information, such as title, phone numbers, and email addresses. You can use vCards to add someone to your contacts list, or to make it easier for people to add you to their contacts list. You can also use vCards to import or export multiple contacts in one file.

Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
- Getting started with Contacts
  You can save important information about people, such as mailing addresses, birthdays, and companies. You can import contacts from other programs, and more.
  - What is a directory?
    A directory is an address book. It contains a list of contacts and their information. When you cannot find a contact, you can search for them in one or more directories.
  - What is a vCard?
    A vCard contains contact information, such as title, phone numbers, and email addresses. You can use vCards to add someone to your contacts list, or to make it easier for people to add you to their contacts list. You can also use vCards to import or export multiple contacts in one file.
  - Who are my Recent Contacts?
    When you address an email or a meeting invitation, a list of names and addresses appears as you type. The people in that list are your recent contacts. They are chosen automatically, based on the people with whom you recently emailed, chatted, and had meetings.
  - How can I use categories in Contacts?
    Categories are labels that help you organize items and find them more easily. You can use categories to organize calendar entries, to do items, contacts, or groups. You can assign category colors, so entries in a category appear in a different color on your calendar.
  - How can I find emails, chats, and shared documents with a specific contact?
    You can view a history of collaborations that you have had with one of your contacts, such as email, chat transcripts (if you have saved them), or shared documents.
- Contacts quick reference
  This quick reference includes a screen image explaining the basics in Contacts, as well as tables listing other commonly-used tasks and shortcuts.
- Personalizing your Contacts settings
  You can change the look of your contacts.
- Contacts access and delegation
  You can give someone access to view or edit your Contacts, or you can open other people's Contacts if they have given you access.
- Other things you can do with Contacts
  You can do many things with contacts, such as print them as labels or synchronize with iNotes and mobile devices.
- Troubleshooting Contacts
  You can get help solving problems in Contacts.

What is a vCard?

A vCard contains contact information, such as title, phone numbers, and email addresses. You can use vCards to add someone to your contacts list, or to make it easier for people to add you to their contacts list. You can also use vCards to import or export multiple contacts in one file.

How can I use vCards?

You can use vCards to quickly add someone to your contacts. Typically, a vCard includes name, title, phone, fax, address, city, state, and postal code. When you import a vCard, you import the data from these fields into matching fields in a contact record. When you receive an email with someone's vCard in it, right-click the vCard to import the person's information into your contacts.
You can use vCards to make it easier for people to add you to their contacts. Add your vCard to your signature, as described in How do I add my signature to emails?.
You can use vCards to import or export multiple contacts in one file. See How do I import contacts from other sources? or Exporting contacts.