# Bulk changing contact owner

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356>\
**Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\
**Created:** [December 1, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356 "2022-12-01T12:14:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AONeill7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@AONeill7](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AONeill7)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356/1 "2022-12-01T12:14:59Z")

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We’ve had an employee leave so we want to transfer all his contacts to another member of staff and make another person secondary contact. Is there a way of doing that? It might be we can only change the primary contact which is still time-saving!

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**Author:** ![franksteiner79](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/franksteiner79/32/34443_2.png) [@franksteiner79](https://community.hubspot.com/u/franksteiner79)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356/2 "2022-12-01T12:54:25Z")

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Hey @AONeill7

That’s certainly possible with the [bulk edit option in HubSpot](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/crm-setup/how-can-i-bulk-edit-contacts-companies-deals-or-tasks).

You simply do the following:

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-01 at 13.50.09.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/5/15c7d1f3a3a1af9296023426b2898c76d3535192.png)  
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1. Go to the contact view and filter contacts by the contact owner who has left
2. Then you select all those contacts, make sure to tick the “select all records” prompt in the blue bar.
3. Then click edit
4. Select the contact owner properties you want to change

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-01 at 13.47.08.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/f/8f8f129a08f1fbc279978ca9078f9925799de8b0.jpeg)

That’s it. All your records have been re-assigned.

Any questions, let me know.

Frank

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**Author:** ![AONeill7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@AONeill7](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AONeill7)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356/3 "2022-12-01T12:57:28Z")

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Thanks so much Frank.

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**Author:** ![DBarnes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@DBarnes3](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DBarnes3)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356/4 "2025-01-17T14:50:19Z")

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is there a way to bulk change the contact owner based on the company owner? for example - i just took over as owner of a bunch of company records. i’d like to update myself as owner of all the associated contacts. how can i do that?

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**Author:** ![DBarnes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@DBarnes3](https://community.hubspot.com/u/DBarnes3)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/bulk-changing-contact-owner/70356/5 "2025-01-17T14:47:52Z")

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is there a way to bulk change the contact owner based on the company owner? for example - i just took over as owner of a bunch of company records. i’d like to update myself as owner of all the associated contacts. how can i do that?