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How to forward contact group (distribution list) in Outlook?

Author: Kelly Last Modified: 2016-11-01

Sometimes you might want to share your contact groups with your friends or colleagues in Outlook, or move contact groups to other email accounts on your computer at home. In these cases, you can forward your contact groups (distribution lists) in Outlook easily.

Forward contact group (distribution list) in Outlook

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arrow blue right bubbleForward contact group (distribution list) in Outlook

Microsoft Outlook supports to forward a contact group (distribution list) as a TXT file or an Outlook contact. Please follow below steps to get it done:

1. In the People (or Contacts) view, double click to open the contact group (distribution list) which you want to forward.

2. In the opening Contact Group window, please click Contact Group > Forward Group > In Internet Forward (vCard) or As an Outlook Contact as you need. See screenshot:

3. And now the opening contact group is added as an attachment in a new email as below screenshot shown. Please add recipients, compose the new email, and then send it.

If select In Internet Forward (vCard):
If select As an Outlook Contact:

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Its easier than that, just put the DL in the members area in Active Directory of the anothe DL
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Hi guys,
If the methods in this article do not work for you. Please go and check this article: https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/6592-outlook-create-edit-use-and-share-a-contact-group.html#a4
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Is it different in webmail because I don't have the Home (or any other) tabs to be able to share. Wanting to share a distribution list
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received distribution list like example above now how do I retrieve content
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Hi smith,
If you send the contact group as an Outlook contact, the recipients can drag the attachment to People icon on the Navigation Pane directly, and the contact group will be added into recipients’ contact folder.
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Супер, все спрацювало, простіше ніж я думала.
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Curious if you have a screen shot of this. I have sent my group lists to others but they are not able to save them or use them.
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Mine did not work either when I attempted to share. I've tried both methods. Did you ever get an answer? Thanks!
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