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To help you connect names with faces, you can assign pictures to your Outlook contacts. This lets you see the sender's picture when you receive an e-mail message.

If you have a Microsoft Exchange account, your organization might have contact pictures for each person in the directory, and those pictures are automatically displayed in messages.

Do any of the following:

Quickly assign a picture to a contact

  1. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Contacts  Outlook contacts icon.

  2. Open the Contact for which you want to add or change the picture.

  3. Drag a picture from anywhere on your computer onto the picture icon next to the contact's name.

  4. Click Save & Close.

Use zoom, effects, or a camera for a contact picture

  1. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Contacts  Outlook contacts icon.

  2. Open the contact that you want, and then double-click the picture icon next to the contact's name.

    The picture selector opens.

  3. Do any of the following:

    Outlook 2016 for Mac

    Outlook contact picture options

    To

    Do this

    Take a picture with your computer's camera

    Click Camera from the list, and then click Outlook camera button.

    Locate a picture on your computer using the Finder

    Click Other.

    Zoom in or out on the picture

    Drag the zoom slider Outlook zoom control.

    Adjust the picture's placement within the frame

    Click the picture and drag it.

    Apply effects to the picture

    Click Photo selector effects, and then click the effect that you want.

    Choose a standard picture

    Click Default, and pick the picture you want.

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