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Creating Custom Contact Groups in Microsoft Outlook

This guide can be followed to make personal contact groups or ECSSD Staff groups.

  1. Open Microsoft Outlook.
  2. Click on the "people" icon at the bottom of the window.
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  3. Click New Contact Group from the top menu.
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    (*NOTE: Do Not click the "New Group" button to the left. It will create a new Office 365 Group which is something completely different).
  4. Enter a Contact Group Name and click the Add Members button from the top menu.
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  5. If you are creating a Personal Contact Group, choose From Outlook Contacts.
    If you are creating a Staff Contact Group, choose From Address Book.
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  6. This may be an extra step if you are creating a Staff Contact Group. Choose Global Address List from the Address Book dropdown menu -OR- choose your School location to limit the list to your school staff.
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  7. Then double click each contact name to add it to the Members field at the bottom of the window.
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  8. Click OK when you have completed your selections.
  9. Click Save & Close from the top menu.
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