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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 offers a variety of Contact views (view: Views give you different ways to look at the same information in a folder by putting it in different arrangements and formats. There are standard views for each folder. You can also create custom views.), so that you can find and view information in a way that best fits your work style. In Office Outlook 2007, the default view is Business Cards view which displays specific information about each of your contacts as an Electronic Business Card (Electronic Business Card: A view of specific information about a contact, in a format similar to a paper-based business card, that can be inserted into messages.). In this view, all the contacts appear in the traditional look of paper business cards in your Outlook window. The alphabetical index enables you to quickly find the contact you want.

• See more of your contacts in Business Cards view

• Change the number of cards displayed in Business Cards view

• Change to Business Cards view

• Change the default view in Contacts

• Learn how Electronic Business Cards appear to recipients

See more of your contacts in Business Cards view

Business Cards view shows your contacts with company logos and designs, individualized backgrounds and layouts, as well as photos or other images. These design features help to make your contacts quickly recognizable when you need to locate them. You and the size of your Outlook window determine how many cards you can view at a time.

By positioning the fields manually when you edit a card, you can choose what information is visible on the card in Business Cards view. You can modify the information for your own card and the cards that you receive from other people. If there is more contact information than can be displayed in Business Cards view, double-click the card to see the contact form (contact form: A view of an individual contact that contains all the information stored in the contact.), and then complete the contact information.

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Change the number of cards displayed in Business Cards view

To change the number of Electronic Business Cards that are displayed at one time in Business Cards view, you can change the size of the cards. If you are trying to see as many cards as possible, make your Outlook window as large as possible.

1. In Contacts, in the Navigation Pane, click Customize Current View.

   I don't see the Navigation Pane

   The Navigation Pane may be turned off or minimized.
   • On the View menu, point to Navigation Pane, and then click Normal.

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2. In the Customize View: Business Cards dialog box, click Other Settings.
3. Under Card fields, change the number in the Card size % box. A smaller number displays more cards, and a larger number displays fewer cards.
4. Click OK.

    Note   You can also get to Other Settings on the View menu. Point to Current View, and then click Customize Current View.

 Tip   If you use a Microsoft IntelliMouse pointing device, you can change the number of cards displayed by holding down CTRL and rotating the IntelliMouse wheel. Rotate the wheel forward to see fewer and larger cards, and rotate it back to see more and smaller cards.

The view that you just created is now your default Business Cards view, even after you exit and restart Office Outlook 2007, until you change the view.

You can also view the cards in Business Cards view in Contacts by scrolling through the list of cards and using the alphabetical index to the right of the cards.

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Change to Business Cards view

Although Business Cards view is the default view in Contacts, you may have exited Outlook when you were working in a different Contacts view. When you exit, Outlook saves the last active view, and this is the view that you see when you restart Outlook, until you change it.

• In Office Outlook 2007, in Contacts, in the Navigation Pane, under Current View, click Business Cards.

I don't see the Navigation Pane

The Navigation Pane may be turned off or minimized.
• On the View menu, point to Navigation Pane, and then click Normal.

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Change the default view in Contacts

When you exit Outlook, Outlook saves the last active view, and this is the view that you see when you restart Outlook. Generally, the view that you work in most often is your default view, until you change it before you exit Outlook.

1. In Contacts, in the Navigation Pane, under Current View, click a view that you want.

   I don't see the Navigation Pane

   The Navigation Pane may be turned off or minimized.
   • On the View menu, point to Navigation Pane, and then click Normal.

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2. Exit and restart Outlook.

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Learn how Electronic Business Cards appear to recipients

Electronic Business Cards can be included in e-mail messages to send the contact information that you want to share and to visually communicate a corporate or personal identity. Depending on the e-mail application that your recipients use, they may see the Electronic Business Card or just receive the information that is included in the card in an attached .vcf file.

Double-clicking the attached .vcf file opens the contact form (contact form: A view of an individual contact that contains all the information stored in the contact.), which can then be saved to the recipient's contact list.

Recipients who use Office Outlook 2007   The Electronic Business Card appears in the message, just as you sent it. The recipients can right-click the card to save the information in it to their Outlook Contacts.

Recipients who use earlier versions of Outlook or other e-mail applications that use HTML to view e-mail   The Electronic Business Card appears in their message. These cards are only images and are not clickable. However, recipients also receive an attached .vcf file that contains the information in the Electronic Business Card. The recipients can open the .vcf file and save that information in their contact lists.

Recipients who view their e-mail messages in plain text   The Electronic Business Card is not visually represented in the message, but they receive the .vcf file attachment that contains the contact information that they can save to their contact lists.

Download free electronic business card templates  Use the professionally designed card templates on Office Online or get ideas for designing your own.  You can also find printable and Community-submitted card designs.

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