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 zip. 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.