Exchanging Electronic Business Cards

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Address Book supports the vCard format, which allows you to exchange electronic business cards with other users via e-mail. To send your business card to another user:

1. Create an address book record for yourself.
2. Select your record in Address Book, choose Export from the File menu, and then choose Business Card (vCard).
3. Specify a filename and location.
4. Send your associate an e-mail message with your exported business card file as an attachment.

To store an associate's electronic business card:

1. Ask the associate to create a business card file (following the steps just listed, if your associate is using Address Book), and send you an e-mail message with that file as an attachment.
2. Save the attachment as a file, using whatever commands your
3. e-mail client program provides.
4. Open Address Book's File menu, point to Import, choose Business Card (vCard) from the submenu, and specify the name of the attachment file.

TIP

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If you use Outlook Express, you can automatically attach your business card to all outgoing mail and you can add business cards you receive to your Address Book by just clicking the attachment and saving it. For details, see Chapter 19, "Using Outlook Express."