Create a Virtual Business Card (vCard) for Outlook and Outlook Express
I’m sure you have received an e-mail at one time or another that had one of those fancy vCards that contains the sender’s information attached to it. And I’m really sure you have wondered how you can make one of those fancy cards for your own e-mail. Here is how you do it for Outlook and Outlook Express.
Outlook
In this example we will show you how to make a vCard using Outlook 2003. The process will be similar for other versions of Outlook.
If you want to setup your vCard to attach to only certain e-mails you can do the following:
1. Create a contact for yourself with all the information you want available and save it.
2. Open the contact you made for yourself.
3. On the File menu, click Export to vCard file.
4. Type a name in the File name box (preferably your name), and then click Save.
5. Attach the vcard when you send out an e-mail
If you want to setup your vCard to attach to every e-mail you send then the following:
1.Click on the Tools menu, then Options, and then click the Mail Format tab.
2. Click on Signatures
3. From here you can either add a vCard to an existing email signature or to a new email signature.
4. Select the signature that you wish to add the vCard to, or create a new signature. If you already have a signature you can click on Edit and then click on the New vCard from Contact button.
5. Under vCard options, select a vCard from the list, and then click Finish.
Outlook Express
To create a business card in Outlook Express, open your Address Book and create an entry for yourself. To do this click on New, then New Contact and type in your information and click Ok.
Next find your name on your list of contacts and click on it to highlight it and click on File, Export, Business Card (vCard). Choose a location to save your vCard. To put the vCard into certain e-mails only, compose a new message. Then go to the Insert menu and choose My Business Card.
To put the vCard into every e-mail that you send out, go to Tools, Options and select the Compose tab. Find your name in the list of contacts that appears. Click Ok when you are done and your business card will now show up in every e-mail you send.
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