Outlook 2007: Enable Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)

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If you are sending an email out to a few people or a mailing list, you probably are wanting to hide the list of addresses from each recipient. You do this by using the blind carbon copy field in the message you are creating. Outlook has this field hidden by default, to unhide the field, follow these steps:


1. From the Outlook toolbar, click New and select Mail Message.

2. A new message window will appear.

3. Go to the Ribbon and select the Options tab.

4. In the Fields section, select Show Bcc.

5. The Bcc field will appear. Place the address(es) you wish to send a blind carbon copy.

 

26 Comments -


  1. Tim said on November 21, 2008

    Thank you!

  2. west158 said on November 27, 2008

    thanks, brilliant; even microsoft cant work this out, only got the 2003 version as ive got the 2007 thumbs up for me.

  3. Ruth said on January 21, 2009

    Thank you very much :)

  4. dlana said on April 2, 2009

    awesome! thanks!

  5. james said on April 29, 2009

    Please also have a scree shot’s related to this. It is very useful if we have all the screen shot’s along with the description. I am not able to check this option in 2007

  6. Anonymous said on August 13, 2009

    Just what I needed. Thanks.

  7. Mikal said on September 2, 2009

    Sweet, that worked. Really wonder why they EVER removed it, but hey, it’s MS right?

  8. Anonymous said on November 4, 2009

    Yes great post. Users can enable Bcc in Outlook using Enable BCC program too.

  9. Anonymous said on December 6, 2009

    Thank you very much

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  11. Anonymous said on April 19, 2010

    very useful thank you

  12. Shuaibalam said on July 27, 2010

    Thanks

  13. Varun said on August 10, 2010

    how to enable it by default?

  14. Yoopy! said on September 24, 2010

    Nice!

  15. BCC said on October 1, 2010

    Yeah, but be careful using this feature!!! In older versions of Outlook, those who were BCC’d would be notified as such. THIS IS NO LONGER THE CASE in 2007!! This means that if you are copying someone that you are trying to keep abreast of a situation, but don’t want others on the TO & CC list to know the individual has been copied, you now need to tell them that they are being BCC’d. If not, they’ll think they were on the original TO list. NOT PRETTY!!!

  16. Royal said on November 3, 2010

    thanks…. :)

  17. Gouruhari said on January 27, 2011

    how to send mail to group(100 receipients) each receipients should see the from address and only particular receipient.

  18. David Armah said on January 28, 2011

    Very Good, Thanks

  19. Aravin said on February 1, 2011

    thanks buddy ,worked like a charm

  20. Derrell said on February 24, 2011

    Thank you so much

  21. Zak said on March 17, 2011

    Thnk U :)…

  22. Mayank Chaudhary said on September 19, 2011

    Thanks Greatttttttttttt………….!

  23. christiana said on November 13, 2011

    If I sent an email with bcc names, how to print out a copy also listing the bcc names?

  24. Patrick said on December 13, 2011

    Thank you so much indeed! I was very helpful!

  25. Lisabel said on January 5, 2012

    Very useful, thanks heaps!

  26. Lori said on February 4, 2012

    Can you enable the BCC when you open a meeting request? I am trying to add this field to my New Meeting Request box.

 

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