How to create a New Event, Contact and Group on Outlook.com 2025

Outlook.com provides additional functionality that allows you to create and schedule an event. You can also create a new contact, a new contact list, and a new group to help you work together toward a common goal or goal. Creating a new event and scheduling it will remind you of the same. So you can be sure you never miss important meetings, events, birthdays, etc. Creating contact and group lists helps you share files and documents with each other and achieve common goals. Let's see how it can be done.

Create a new event, a new contact, a new group

Here are the steps to create a new event, new contact, new contact list, and new group in Outlook.com:

Of Calendar tab, click New event.
Of People tab, click New contact.
In the New Contact drop-down menu, you can find the New contact list and the New group options too.
Fill in the required information then click on Create or to save.

You will find the Calendar and Contacts tabs at the bottom of the left pane. Refer to the image below.

How to create and schedule a new event in Outlook on the web

Go to Calendar tab and click New event. A small pop-up window will open with details such as title name, date, time, etc.

To find out more, click More Options at the bottom of the window.
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Add an important title to the event. It could be an important meeting, a flight to catch a reminder, a birthday reminder, things to do, etc.

To the left of the title you will see an icon. Click on this icon and a new pop-up window will open showing a number of different icons such as an airplane icon, a note icon, a parcel delivery icon , a person icon, a star icon and much more.

Choose an appropriate icon for your event.
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For the event, you can invite mandatory and optional participants in the columns below.

Fill in details such as date, time, time zone, location and add a description or attach documents if necessary.

You can turn on the All Day and Skype meeting options if necessary.

When you have finished entering all the details, confirm once, then click to save. Your event is now recorded and scheduled.

How to create a new contact, contact list and group in Outlook.com

Go to People tab located under the left pane, then click New Contact. You will see a drop-down menu consisting of 3 options- New contact, new contact list and new group.

New contact

To create a new contact, click on New contact and a new pop-up window will open.
Add first name, last name, email address, cell phone number, company name and notes, if applicable.
Click on Add more than to add phone numbers, addresses, birthday, anniversary, etc. then click on Create.

New contact list

If you need to send an email to more than one person at a time, you must create a contact list with all the required email addresses.
Fill in details such as the name of the contact list, add email addresses and add a description to it.
Click on Create. Your contact list is now ready.

New group

Creating a group will give you space to share conversations, files, plan events and more. It helps a number of people to work together towards a common goal.
All you have to do is add a group name and description or goal to create the group.
Click on Create. Another pop-up window will open.
Add members or email addresses to the group, then click Add. The new group will be created.

This is how we can create a new event, a new contact and a new contact list, and a new group in Outlook.com

Using these Outlook features will make your life easier as it will constantly remind you of various events and meetings; and help you chat and share files and documents with your contacts and / or a group of people with just a few clicks.