Groups in Outlook??

[Mousetater]

Trying to convert over to Outlook from OE.
-How do I add Newsgroups???
-I'm used to having groups in OE, can and if so HOW do I create groups in
Outlook??
I've imported the contacts, but it didn't import groups, only the contacts
in the main tab.
This is a bigger nicer program, but it's also harder to use simple things,
like contacts.
Thanks

 

[Gordon]

Trying to convert over to Outlook from OE.
-How do I add Newsgroups???
-I'm used to having groups in OE, can and if so HOW do I create groups in
Outlook??

You don't. Outlook uses OE in News-only mode to read newsgroups.

 

[Mousetater]

You don't. Outlook uses OE in News-only mode to read newsgroups.

Ok, and how might I do that??

 

[Gordon]

In Outlook click on View-Goto-News

 

[Mousetater]

In Outlook click on View-Goto-News

Great thanks!!
Now if anyone can help me with the groups issue, it'd be awesome.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Now if anyone can help me with the groups issue, it'd be awesome.

I'm assuming you're referring to address groups. In Outlook, the closest
thing is a DIstribution List, created with, oddly enough,
FIle>New>Distribution List. Word is, though, that DLs can be fragile and
that using categories to collect contacts together is a better way to go.

 

[Mousetater]

I'm assuming you're referring to address groups. In Outlook, the closest
thing is a DIstribution List, created with, oddly enough,
FIle>New>Distribution List. Word is, though, that DLs can be fragile and
that using categories to collect contacts together is a better way to go.

Excellent! Catagories....is there a trick to setting those up and moving the
contacts to there???

 

[Gordon]

Great thanks!!
Now if anyone can help me with the groups issue, it'd be awesome.

You now need to set up a news server in OE. Go to Tools-Accounts-Add-News
and use msnews.microsoft.com for the news server to read this group

 

[Brian Tillman]

Excellent! Catagories....is there a trick to setting those up and
moving the contacts to there???

No trick, as far as I can tell. You have the built-in categories Outlook
supplies and you can make new ones as you see fit. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.htm for a category discussion.