If you accidentally delete a contact or a contact list in Outlook on the web or Outlook.com, you can restore the contact or contact list if it's still in your Deleted folder on the People page. In some cases, you can even recover a contact or contact list after it's removed from the Deleted folder.

Typically, you can import contacts without worrying about the underlying details of how the text is stored in the CSV file. However, if the contact information includes characters not found in the English alphabet, such as Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, or Japanese characters, this can cause problems when importing contacts.

Contact groups, or distribution lists, are a fast way to send a message to multiple email recipients, especially groups you repeatedly contact.

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A contact list is a collection of email addresses, and is useful for sending email to a group of people. Contact lists are sometimes referred to as distribution lists. For example, create a contact list named My Book Club and add all the members of your book club to it.

Use the People page in Outlook.com to view, create, and edit contacts and contact lists. Create new contacts from scratch, or add someone as a contact from an email message. You can also create a contact list for sending email to a group of people. To go to the People page, sign in to Outlook.com and select at the lower left corner of the page.

Share an Outlook mailing list, known as a contact group or distribution list, with other people by including it in the body of an email message.

You can create new contacts from scratch in the People page or add someone as a contact from their profile card. A contact can be as basic as a name and email address, or include more information like a street address, multiple phone numbers, and a profile picture.

When you send a message to a person or organization that isn’t an Outlook contact, the recipient email address isn’t added to the Safe Senders List. This means that when the recipient replies to your message, the reply message might be moved to the Junk E-Mail folder.

Codecs allow you to play different formats of audio and video files. Media Player supports a wide variety of codecs. Most are included out of the box; some additional codecs can be installed from the Microsoft Store.