See my original reply to your message, included here:
"To put them into a BCC: field, select all and then drag/drop to the BCC
field."
Hope you have it sorted out between Russ and my butting in
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
Having searched the archives, Brendan Burgess <
[email protected]> asked
| Milly
|
| That works when you want to show everyone who you are
| sending the email to.
|
| At least half the time I want to bcc them, so they don't
| know who gets the email. Is it possible the way you are
| suggesting?
|
| Brendan
|
|
|
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| As I said, Contact subfolders and Distribution Lists will show up in
|| the Outlook Address Book. Categories will not. You should have
|| created subfolders just as you did in OE if you wanted to view them
|| in the Address Book.
||
|| Categories can be used to filter or sort the Contacts Folder view,
|| so it should be an easy matter to move or copy each category's
|| members into a separate subfolder. Enable each subfolder as an
|| e-mail address book (in Properties of each folder) and you'll see
|| them in the Outlook Address Book. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| Russ
|||
||| Thanks for being so patient with me.
|||
||| I imported 250 addresses from Outlook Express into
||| Contacts.
||| I then allocated these to about 10 different categories -
||| Club, Family, Friends, Overseas Friends etc.
||| So by Club Folder, I mean Club Category.
||| When I click on To: I get the following options:
||| Show Names from the:
||| I have this defaulting to Contacts and all the contacts
||| are in alphabetical order - i.e. no categorization.
||| In the drop down box, I could select Outlook Address
||| Book, but this seems to be empty and doesn't allow me to
||| add any names. From reading up on this, The OAB seems to
||| be redundant.
|||
||| In Outlook Express, when I clicked on the To: button, my
||| address book came up in Folders. So I could click on the
||| Club Folder and select the people I wanted from that
||| folder. Is it possible to do this in Outlook ?
|||
||| Brendan
|||
|||
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| How did you create your Contacts? If you imported them, groups in
|||| OE won't import.
|||| What do you mean by "Club Folder?" What is it and how did you
|||| create it? You would use a Distribution List or a separate Contact
|||| subfolders to do this in Outlook. Both will appear in the Outlook
|||| Address Book if you create them correctly.
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| Russ
|||||
||||| Thanks for the quick response.
|||||
||||| I understand that there are innumerable ways of
||||| organizing contacts. But that's not my problem.
|||||
||||| I want to send an email to a selection of people.
||||| I click on the "To:" button and all the email addresses
||||| in my contacts come up in alphabetical order. That's no
||||| good to me at all.
|||||
||||| In Outlook Express, I got all my addresses sorted by
||||| folders. So I went into my Club Folder and selected the
||||| 10 names I wanted out of the 25. In Outlook, I seem to be
||||| obliged to select 10 names out of 250 - i.e. the total
||||| names in my address book.
|||||
||||| I can go into the Contacts Folder and see the Club
||||| Folder, but I haven't been able to figure out how to send
||||| a mail to some of them and Bcc others.
|||||
||||| Brendan
|||||| -----Original Message-----
|||||| They are one in the same. The Outlook Address Book is simply a
|||||| dynamic view of every electronic address in your Contacts
| Folder.
||| It
||||| contains no data or
|||||| separate information.
|||||| There are innumerable ways to organize your Contacts:
|||||| Distribution Lists, Categories, and separate Contacts subfolders
|||||| what most of us use. You'll also find that using views of your
|||||| Contacts Folders is a lot more versatile than using the Address
|||||| Book view.
|||||| Learn about Outlook Contacts and how to use them here:
||||||
http://www.slipstick.com/index.htm
|||||| Just search on "Contacts"
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Russ Valentine
|||||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| ||||||| I have just moved from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002
||||||| and I am totally confused.
|||||||
||||||| When I clicked on the "To" button in OE, I got a nicely
||||||| organized address book with subfolders and mailing lists.
||||||| If I wanted to select say 10 people out of the 25 in
||||||| my "Club" folder, I would select "Club" and
| choose
||| the
||||| 10
||||||| from that list.
|||||||
||||||| Now I get every single contact in my address book and
||||||| have to scroll down through them all to find the 10 I
||||||| want.
|||||||
||||||| I have spent ages trying to figure out when to use
||||||| contacts and when to use address books in Outlook. Is
||||||| there any really comprehensive explanation of this
||||||| frustrating subject?
|||||||
||||||| Brendan
||||||
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