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Tip: help your colleagues by adding your profile picture to Office 365

24 June 2022

If you work together online, it’s nice to see who you’re dealing with. Adding your photo to your Office 365 profile helps your colleagues recognise you and reduces the distance between you.

Who can see your profile picture? 

If you add your photo to Office 365, this will be visible to all your Leiden University colleagues, in all Office 365 apps.

Some faculties and institutes use professional photos for the website. You can also use this for your Office 365 profile. Note that you are not obliged to add your profile picture. 

How do you add your profile picture?

  • Choose a photo. This can be a .png, .jpg or .gif file (make sure the photo is no larger than 4MB). Save the photo.
  • Open your webmail (https://outlook.office.com) and log in with your user name and password.
  • At the top right, click on your profile picture (1) (if you haven’t yet added a profile picture, you will see your initials).
  • In the window that now appears, click on your initials (2)
  • In the new window click on Upload a new photo (3).
  • Select the photo and click on Open.
  • Select the photo and click on Open. You may be able to use the bar below the photo to zoom in on it. You can also drag the picture to move it.
  • Click on apply to save to the changes.

The photo has now been saved, but it may take a while before the changes are visible.

More tips

For more tips on using Office 365 and Teams, go to thehelpdesk portal and type Teams or Office 365 in the search field.

This information is also in the helpdesk portal under KI 3914.

  • Select the photo and click on Open.
  • Select the photo and click on Open. You may be able to use the bar below the photo to zoom in on it. You can also drag the picture to move it.
  • Click on apply to save to the changes.

The photo has now been saved, but it may take a while before the changes are visible.

More tips

For more tips on using Office 365 and Teams, go to the helpdesk portal and type Teams or Office 365 in the search field.

This information is also in the helpdesk portal under KI 3914.

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