iCloud Contacts as Outlook 2013's default Address Book?

Simple way to obviate the problem (at least in Outlook 2016):

1. Open your iCloud address book in Outlook.

2. Press CTRL+A to select all entries in the iCloud address book.
3. Press CTRL+C to copy all of the entries in the iCloud address book.

4. Switch to the Outlook contacts folder and press CTRL+V to paste the entries to that address book.

Now regardless of which address book is opened or searched in Outlook, you'll have all of your addresses shown. The only downside is that new entries must be copied from one address book to the other.

The answer is no, but, you can make it one of the address books that Outlook searches when filling in email addresses. You can make it be the only one if you choose to. It is not the default though (ie: if you add a contact in Outlook it will go to the local address book unless you choose iCloud)

Here's a link to the directions.

Do the following:

1. Launch Outlook
2. Select People
3. Select the Home tab in the Ribbon
4. Select Address Book in the Ribbon (in the Find section)
5. In the Address Book pop-up, choose Tools>Options…
6. Under “When opening the address book…” at the bottom, choose iCloud Contacts from the drop-down list and click OK

Sorry Csound1, didn't see your post before replying.

No problem 🙂

Open Outlook, select People, right-click on Contacts under iCloud on the left sidebar. In the Contacts Properties pop-up window, go to the Outlook Address Book tab and make sure "Show this folder as and e-mail Address Book" is checked, then click OK. Then see if your iCloud contacts are now available to select in Tools>Options.

Did you try the method I posted?

From FILE-> Account Settings -> Address Books :

After you follow the above instructions the iCloud Contacts will be available

I have seen several posts saying it cannot be done, but I just did it, kind of... 🙂 . Here is what I did. This doesn't officially make the default contacts folder be iCloud but in the end, I simply want my contacts to pull up easier from my icloud contacts when I create a new email and this does the trick. Note If you create a new contact inside of outlook, it will default to your other folder (not iCloud) but simply click the iCloud folder on the left and start creating all of your contacts you need, they will be placed in the iCloud folder at that point. If you create them on your iphone they will be synced and updated to the iCloud contact list provided you have your phone settings to allow you to sync contacts with icloud.

1. From the top menu on the Home tab, select address book. You can also get to this by creating a new email message and clicking the to tab, this will open the address book.

2. Once the address book is open, select tools and then options from the address book menu.

3. from the drop down, choose the custome option and then select iCloud. This will select the iCloud contacts folder first when opening a new message.

4. Choose the iCloud option in the drop down for when opening the address book, show this address list first.

these settings will default iCloud as the default contact list from a user perspective when you open the address book and when you create a new email.

I dont know if this works for 2010 but you can try to see if there options are here.

It appears there are still issues saving incoming invites to the default calendar....ugh!!

For those interested, I am happy to note that the above instructions work for Outlook 2016, and by simply removing the default "Outlook" Address Book, and leaving the iCloud one, you will have it working like a charm!