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title: "Create and Manage a Contact Group"
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*We’ll let the experts explain this one.*  
  
Visit Microsofts's [Create a contact group or distribution list](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-contact-group-or-distribution-list-in-outlook-for-pc-88ff6c60-0a1d-4b54-8c9d-9e1a71bc3023)<span style="color: #707070"> </span><span style="color: #003366">and </span><span style="color: #003366">[Manage a contact group](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/Contacts-and-tasks-c300a45d-5ffd-4bf7-a0e8-a579a38ff5d3#ID0EAABAAA=Create_and_manage_contacts)</span><span style="color: #003366"> </span>pages for more information.

> ℹ️ - Microsoft 365 imposes a **Message Recipient limit of 500 recipients** for distribution lists. This is the maximum number of recipients allowed in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields for a single email.
> ℹ️ - If you need to send a message to more than 500 recipients, a [Sympa distribution list](https://calpoly.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CPKB/pages/2425369) should be used to send the email. When an email is sent to a Sympa list, Office 365 interprets the recipient limit as one recipient even though the list could include thousands of email addresses.
> ℹ️ - The Outlook web client only allows one address to be added to a Contact List at a time; you can't paste a list of addresses into a Contact List. You can paste a list of addresses into an Outlook desktop Contact Group.
> ℹ️ - If you are copying and pasting an email list into a contact group from Word or Excel, please use <span style="color: #172b4d">column format.</span>

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