Many of us pass around printed business cards as a way of sharing our contact information. Microsoft Outlook provides an efficient method for creating, sending and receiving electronic business cards. Electronic business cards are called vCards; they are files with the extension vcf (virtual card file).
vCards in Outlook are made from contact records. To make your own vCard you first need to create an Outlook contact with your own details in it.
1. Click File->New->Contact to open a new contact record
2. Enter any details about yourself that you want to share with others. I suggest you complete as much information as possible, and consider adding a contact picture or company logo.
3. Click Save & Close.
Your contact record is now ready to be used as an electronic business card, you can set it up to send with every email that you send or what I prefer, selectively send it to new contacts. I select my contact details File->Save As->Export to Vcard File and save the file on my desktop. The file is now easy for you to find and attach to an email when you want to send it to a new contact. You could set up the file to automatically attach to a single signature or to all signatures if you wanted. I wanted to show you this method, as you may want to pass details of someone in your Outlook address book, and you can use what we have shown you.
If you receive an email with a vCard (vcf file) attached, SELECT the attachment, double left click, make any changes required, CLICK Save->Close.
from Heather Smith ~ MYOB Certified Consultant