Thursday, August 16, 2018

TIP 15 : Outlook : Sync Facebook contacts with MS Outlook




In this blog we will learn how to keep your contacts up to date in outlook. To achieve this Microsoft Outlook has introduced an add-in called outlook social connector that can be sued to connect outlook to social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook. Follow below mentioned steps to connect outlook to social networks –

  • Go to contacts by clicking on the contacts icon. Click on Connect to a social network link or go to View tab then click on the People Pane drop down button and choose Account Settings…



  • It will open up the Social Network Accounts window. Select LinkedIn if it is available in the list and click on Connect Button and if it is not there then click on Connect to another social network link under More, it will open the website to download and install the social media connector. Once add in is installed, restart the outlook and follow above step to sync social media contacts to Outlook.


  • Choose Facebook by clicking on the check box button and enter Facebook account credentials then click Connect.



  • Click Finish button and wait for the contacts to be synced to outlook. You will observe the Facebook folder created in My Contacts section of outlook with the synced contacts.








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