Create a contact card with your own information

You can keep track of people and organizations by entering information about them in Windows Contacts. You can also use Windows Contacts to create a contact for yourself that contains your personal information. The contact that you create for yourself can be used like a virtual business card, and can contain your e‑mail addresses, street address, phone numbers, job title, and any other information you want to include.

1.     Open Windows Contacts.

2.     On the toolbar, click New Contact, and then type your information in any of the boxes on the available tabs. You don't have to fill in all the boxes; just enter as much information about yourself as you want.

3.     When you are done entering information, click OK to save the contact, then right-click your contact and click Set As My Contact. When you designate a contact as your contact, you allow Windows Mail and other programs to use it as your default contact information.

Tip

• To quickly send others information about yourself, right-click your contact and then click Send Contact. This will create a new message in your default e-mail program with the contact attached in vCard format (typically the best format to use when sharing contacts with others). To send the contact in .contact format, right-click the contact, click Send To, and then click Mail Recipient. Recipients must be running one of the latest versions of Windows to view the .contact format.

See also

• Managing your contacts
• Organize and find contacts