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# Share Contacts

Share contacts with other users to make it easier to collaborate within your sales team.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

To share contact records with other users, those users must have Read permission for Contacts. When you share a contact record that has an associated account, the account is also shared only if you have permission to share account records.

1. On a contact’s detail page, click **Sharing**. The sharing detail page lists the users, groups, roles, and territories that have sharing access to the contact.
2. On the sharing detail page, do any of the following.
    - To show a filtered list of items, select a predefined list from the View dropdown list, or click **Create New View** to define your own custom views.
    - To edit or delete any view you created, select it from the View dropdown list and click **Edit**.
    - To edit or delete any view you created, select it from the View dropdown list and click **Edit**.Click **Expand List** to view all users that have access to the record.
    - To grant access to the record to other users, groups, roles, or territories, click **Add**.
    - For manual sharing rules that you created, click **Edit** or **Del** next to an item in the list to edit or delete the access level.
3. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Considerations for Sharing and Accessing Contacts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.contacts_sharing_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Here’s some things to know about sharing and accessing contact records.")