How to hide e-mail addresses from other recipients in Outlook

In Outlook, you may want to send an e-mail message to more than one person but not want the recipients to know that other people are receiving the same message. This article describes how to hide e-mail addresses from other recipients.

To hide e-mail addresses from other recipients, type the recipients addresses in the Bcc field of the e-mail message:

1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Mail Message.
2. In the Untitled message, on the View menu, click Bcc Field.
   
   Note In Office Outlook 2007, in the Untitiled message, click Show Bcc in Fields group on the Option menu.
3. In the box next to Bcc, type the recipients' addresses.

NOTE: If a recipient uses Microsoft Outlook 97 with the original Internet Mail service, the contents of the Bcc field may be visible. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: You can also use the Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Word to send an e-mail message to a group of contacts. Each recipient receives a message addressed individually. For more information about how to send broadcast mail, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: