Contacts App Mac Than It

The universal way will allow you to export all your contacts to a.vcf file, which will then be readable by virtually any operating system or mail client in the world.

Contacts App Mac Than It

Its actually much easier to do that on your Mac than it is on your iPhone, as youll be able to tell.

In this post, we will show you various ways to not only share a contact card with someone, but well also learn how to export your contacts directly to your Mac, so you can use them as a backup or simply to share them with someone.

To share a Mac contact with someone This is the quick and easy way to share a contact card with someone.

Note the following option is only available to share one contact at a time.

If you wish to share multiple contacts at a time, scroll down below.

On your Mac, launch the Contacts app.

Click on the name of the contact you want to share to select it.

Once selected, the name will be highlighted in blue, as you can see on the screenshot below.

Click on the Share icon located at the lower right corner of the contact card you want to share (see the red border on the image above).

This will bring up several sharing options.

You now have several options to share the contact details.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will only share via email, so click the Email Card option.

This will open your Macs Mail application, and the contact card will be automatically attached to the a new email.

Type in a recipients email address, add text to your email if you want to, then click Send.

The person receiving this email will be able to save the contact card to their computer.

Alternatively, they will be able to easily add this contact to Gmail, or to their Mac or iPhone contacts.

To export one contact The method described above is great for sharing a contact, but what if you want to export this contact to back it up to your computer for example This is what were going to see now.

On your Mac, go to the Contacts app and click on the contact you want to export in order to select it.

Once selected, the contact will be highlighted in blue, as you can see on the following screenshot.

In the Menu bar at the top of your screen, go to File Export Export vCard This will create a.vcf file, a format widely used by most applications, whether on Windows PC or Mac.

This will open up a dialogue box where you will be able to choose where you want to save the contact card.

Change the location if needed, and click Save.

You may for example, save it for later as some sort of backup.

To export multiple contacts Now that weve seen how to export one contact at a time, were going to take it a notch further by learning how to export several contacts at once.

The process is similar to the one described above.

Launch the Contacts application on your Mac.

Press and hold the Command key on your keyboard while selecting multiple contacts.

In this example, we selected two contacts, but youre free to select as many as you want.

In the upper left corner of your screen, click on File Export Export vCard 4) A dialogue box will appear prompting you to choose a location where to save the exported contacts on your computer.

Note that the several contacts you have exported will all be under one single.vcf file.

You may now do whatever you see fit with this file.

You can share it with someone or keep it on your computer as a backup.

To export all contacts to a.vcf file There are two ways to export all your contacts at once on a Mac.

There is the Apple-compatible-only way, and there is the universal way.

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