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
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At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Contacts
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Open the Contact for which you want to add or change the picture.
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Drag a picture from anywhere on your computer onto the picture icon next to the contact's name.
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Click Save & Close.
Use zoom, effects, or a camera for a contact picture
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At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Contacts
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Open the contact that you want, and then double-click the picture icon next to the contact's name.
The picture selector opens.
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Do any of the following:
Outlook 2016 for Mac
To
Do this
Take a picture with your computer's camera
Click Camera from the list, and then click
.Locate a picture on your computer using the Finder
Click Other.
Zoom in or out on the picture
Drag the zoom slider
.Adjust the picture's placement within the frame
Click the picture and drag it.
Apply effects to the picture
Click
, and then click the effect that you want.Choose a standard picture
Click Default, and pick the picture you want.