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Old March 31st, 2010, 09:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Gordon[_13_]
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Default Creating a Distribution List in OUTLOOK 2007


"ATK31" wrote in message
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Gordon,

Search Contacts for the domain name, select all the results and add a

CATEGORY to them.

Is there a way to create a Distribution List of all contacts in a given
Category? I could not find one.


Categories are a much better and more robust way of managing the same thing
without creating D/Ls which are flaky and difficult to manage.
If you add a Category to a selection of contacts you don't need to further
create a distribution list. Just view Contacts by Category, highlight the
requires category and do Actions-Create-New Message to Contact.

The advantages of Categories over D/Ls are many - you add the category to a
contact, not the contact to a D/L - a contact may have multiple categories
assigned to it - Categories are far more suitable when there are large
numbers of recipients, if you want to remove a contact from a particular
category you just remove the category from that contact.
I think you'll find that when you get into Categories, you'll never want to
see another D/L again! It's SO much easier to manage.