S
Steve
Outlook 2007
Vista SP-2
Along time ago I had a problem using a distribution list and was told that
the feature is obsolete and no longer really works because of it. I was told
to use the new Groups feature because Groups can do anything!
Well, now I have all my contacts broken up into groups in my email
application and I wanted to send them an email:
First, I noticed that my address book does not show my contact's group.
Second, I went into my "Contacts", selected the contacts and dragged them
into the "To:" section of an email. To my surprise, EVERY DETAIL of those
contacts got pasted into this field. Useless.
Third, I selected my contacts in "Contacts", I right clicked to select the
"New Mail" message, but there was no "New Mail" option!
So in conclusion:
1) Did Microsoft decide to implement any purpose to groups other than
drawing a pretty color next to the contact's name in my Contact view?
2) Why on earth is it so difficult for an EMAIL APP to send an email to this
"distribution list" killer?
3) Why did everyone on that newsgroup direct me to this feature? I'm really
tired of people on newsgroups giving advice when they have no clue what
they're talking about. I'm certain anyone reading this will also not know and
will also give me a bad answer, so my main reason for writing this is to vent
about Microsoft (yet again) intentionally screwing up their software.
Vista SP-2
Along time ago I had a problem using a distribution list and was told that
the feature is obsolete and no longer really works because of it. I was told
to use the new Groups feature because Groups can do anything!
Well, now I have all my contacts broken up into groups in my email
application and I wanted to send them an email:
First, I noticed that my address book does not show my contact's group.
Second, I went into my "Contacts", selected the contacts and dragged them
into the "To:" section of an email. To my surprise, EVERY DETAIL of those
contacts got pasted into this field. Useless.
Third, I selected my contacts in "Contacts", I right clicked to select the
"New Mail" message, but there was no "New Mail" option!
So in conclusion:
1) Did Microsoft decide to implement any purpose to groups other than
drawing a pretty color next to the contact's name in my Contact view?
2) Why on earth is it so difficult for an EMAIL APP to send an email to this
"distribution list" killer?
3) Why did everyone on that newsgroup direct me to this feature? I'm really
tired of people on newsgroups giving advice when they have no clue what
they're talking about. I'm certain anyone reading this will also not know and
will also give me a bad answer, so my main reason for writing this is to vent
about Microsoft (yet again) intentionally screwing up their software.