Add or change a contact picture

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  .
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  .

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

   

   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.