To create a new digital business card in Outlook, first go to “New Items” – “Contact Us”.

There you enter all contact information such as name, telephone, e-mail, address, etc. in the corresponding form fields.
Optionally, you can also select and edit an already existing contact from your address list.

For telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, you can also enter multiple values.

Although not all data is immediately visible in the later view of the preview, they are completely available in Outlook, Android and iOS smartphones.

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Now, when you add a picture to your digital business card, you should think twice about the following:

1. For what purpose will I use the business card?

“A very conceivable use could be your personal business vCard for business contacts,
Since these are now very often used on different devices, is special here
to pay attention to the quality and the general external effect.

If your current portrait photo looks more like a standard application photo than a business photo, we recommend professional career photo editing.

The advantage: It does not need a new photo shoot.

A picture upload with our Partner Starmazing.de is enough, and you get business photos, like after an exclusive photo shoot in a modern business building.

2. Your image will not be displayed the same size everywhere.

“What does this mean if you call someone who has received your contact information via your vCard, your profile picture will also be displayed on a larger screen to fill the screen.

So it’s not just quality and visibility that have to be chosen, but also the right format. Here, too, a professional picture agency can be a sensible investment.

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After we have entered our details and inserted our profile picture into the vCard, we now turn to the layout of our digital business card.

To do this, click on: “Edit business card”, which opens a window with a preview of the current layout.

Here you can change the position, size, background and text color of the text and image, as well as the fields that are displayed in the main view, or adjust blank lines.

When you have made all adjustments, click either “Save and Close” or “Save and New Contact” to add more contacts.

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Now your business card is ready to be shipped.

Receivers in this vCard will now have all previously set contact details ready at all times when your card is opened.

In Outlook you can integrate your card as follows:

• In a new e-mail go to: “Attach item” – “Business Card” and select there by quick selection, or from your contact list.

This is then inserted as an attachment with all the contact data contained, as well as an image file with the main contact information in the signature of your e-mail.

If you do not want your vCard in the signature, you can simply mark the image and remove it. The attached business card remains untouched.

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If you receive an e-mail with a vCard attached, you can also save it conveniently, saving yourself the hassle of having to manually create all of the sender’s contact information.

To do this, simply click on “open” in the field of the attached vCard, which will open it completely with all the information contained in Outlook.

Here you have the opportunity to further hints, or to adjust further information, and then save as a contact.

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Regardless of whether you receive a vCard by e-mail, WhatsApp message, or MMS, both Android and iOS devices can easily read them from home and include them in your contact list.

At the reception by e-mail:

• Download the e-mail completely (settings-dependent).
• Open the vcf. File in the attachment.

Then select in which of your address books you want to save the contact.
(Locally on the device, or in one of your online e-mail accounts)