Sharing an Address Book with Another User

Shared address books are marked with a Shared address book icon or Shared address book icon icon. This icon might be slightly different, depending on whether or not you created the address book.

You can share personal address books with other users. You can give users read-only rights, or you can give them rights to read, add, edit, and delete information in the address book. When you share an address book, the users receive a notification that they can accept or decline.

  1. In the Main Window, click Address Book toolbar icon on the toolbar.

    If the address book you want is not visible, you can open it by clicking File > Open Book.

  2. Right-click the address book you want to share.

  3. Click Sharing.

  4. Click Shared with.

  5. Type the name of the person with whom you want to share the address book, then click Add User to add the user to the Share list.

    If you do not know the name of the person, click Address Book icon, then search for and select the user.

    You cannot share address books across external domains.

  6. Click each user’s name in the Share list, then assign him or her Access rights in the Access group box.

  7. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box.

    When you click OK, the person with whom you want to share the address book receives a notification. The Status column displays as Pending until the user accepts or declines the shared address book request, then the column is updated to reflect the user’s selection.

    In the Address Book, shared address books are marked with the Shared address book icon or Shared address book icon icon.

    You and the users you share an address book with can arrange your address book columns differently.

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