Share a contact group or distribution list with others. You can send a contact group (formerly called a distribution list) to others by including it in a message. The recipient can then save it in their Contacts folder.

Use a contact group (formerly called a “distribution list”) to send an email to multiple people—a project team, a committee, or even just a group of friends—without having to add each name each time you want to send them an email message. A contact group is stored in your contacts folder.

Hotmail is now Outlook.com. Learn how to sign in to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, or MSN email account.

If you have a set of calendars that you frequently view together, such as your work colleagues or your family, using calendar groups makes it easy for you to see the combined schedules at a glance. Calendar groups can also include resources, Internet calendars, or SharePoint calendars.

Open Outlook for Windows. Under Groups in the left folder pane, select your group. On the Groups ribbon, select Add Members. In the Add Members box, search for people within your organization either by their full name or email address, and then select the names to add. Click OK.

Create a contact group. Add people to a contact group. Send an email message to a contact group. Training: Watch and learn how to create an email contact group in Outlook so you can email the group instead of sending individual emails.

Search for a group to join. On the Home tab, select Browse Groups. Enter a group name in the search box or scroll the list to find the one you want. Click Join. If the group is private, a request will be sent to the group's admin, who can accept or decline the request.

With Microsoft Forms, you can create a form or quiz in your Microsoft 365 group that can be accessed and managed by all team members of that group. Go to Microsoft Forms and sign in with your Microsoft 365 work or school account or Microsoft personal account (Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com.

Grouping data in a PivotTable can help you show a subset of data to analyze. For example, you may want to group an unwieldy list date and time fields in the PivotTable into quarters and months. Windows Mac.

Join a group in Outlook. Add or delete the photo for your Microsoft 365 Group. Add and remove group members in Outlook. Learn how to delete groups in Outlook for PC, Outlook on the web, and the Outlook mobile app.