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Send a Message from Within a Contact

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Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Microsoft Exchange, Live@edu

You can send an e-mail message to a contact while you're viewing that person's contact information from the Reading Pane or from an open contact.

How do I send a message from within a contact?

  1. In the Navigation Pane, click contact Contacts.
  2. Find and click the contact you want to send a message to. When selected, the contact will be highlighted.
  3. Click New Message create message to contact to open a new message form with the contact on the To line.
    The New Message to Contact create message to contact button is also available in an open contact.
  4. Add any additional recipients, a subject, and your message.
  5. Click send Send or press ALT+S.

You can select multiple adjacent contacts to send a message to by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking the first contact, and then clicking the last contact to select all contacts in between. You can select multiple non-adjacent contacts by holding down the CTRL key and clicking each contact you want to select. After you make your selections, click New Message to Contact create message to contact to open a new message form addressed to the contacts you selected.

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