contacts

[Anne]

In windows outlook you could arrange your contacts so that a folder (family,
local friends, Veterans) etc. could be together and when you addressed the
email ...you could just select from one of your folders and address the mail.
NOW the folders don't show up and I have to select the addressee's from the
400 names in my contacts list. I hate this. Any suggestions? I don't want
to make groups for all of them...cause sometimes an email is only to a few
people in a folder. Any ideas?

 

[Bob F.]

I don't have an answer for you; I have another question.
I can't even find HOW to make groups any more! That option seems to
have disappeared from my computer.
Has there been some recent update (I get my updates automatically) that
has changed Windows Mail??
Lyndi

It's still there. See:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/warranty.shtm
BobF.

 

[Anne]

Come to think of it...you are right! Boy would I have been Peeved had I tried
to make a group out of 210 in one group. Wish I could help.

 

[Bob F.]

Come to think of it...you are right! Boy would I have been Peeved had I
tried
to make a group out of 210 in one group. Wish I could help.

:

Did you miss this? ...or did it not work for you...
It's still there. See:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/warranty.shtm
BobF.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Shawn! By reading that tutorial you posted, I learned that
all I had to do to make the Groups appear again was to right-click on an
empty space in the Contacts directory: " A) If you do not see *New
Contact Group*, then right click on a empty area of the right pane and
click *Customize This Folder*. Change the folder template to *Contacts*.
"

Again, it must have been some type of automatic update that had changed
the appearance of my Contacts directory, because until recently I could
always see the option of *New Contact Group*.

Thanks for your help!

There were about 12 updates for Vista yesterday, so that looks
reasonable.

 

[mikeyhsd]

WM does not understand FOLDERS as it was in OE.
but it does use GROUPS.
unfortunately as you have found there is no convenient way to eliminate a few contacts when using a group.

what I have done to fill in the gap is to create specialized groups, with the contacts that I would usually use and similar with some names missing and named to indicate so.

such as
FAMILY
FMILYNOTomMary



(e-mail address removed)



In windows outlook you could arrange your contacts so that a folder (family,
local friends, Veterans) etc. could be together and when you addressed the
email ...you could just select from one of your folders and address the mail.
NOW the folders don't show up and I have to select the addressee's from the
400 names in my contacts list. I hate this. Any suggestions? I don't want
to make groups for all of them...cause sometimes an email is only to a few
people in a folder. Any ideas?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Incidentally, this workaround is not necessary when using Windows
Live Mail. WLM allows groups to be expanded on the To line so you
can delete some contacts from that group.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


WM does not understand FOLDERS as it was in OE.
but it does use GROUPS.
unfortunately as you have found there is no convenient way to eliminate a few contacts when using a group.

what I have done to fill in the gap is to create specialized groups, with the contacts that I would usually use and similar with
some names missing and named to indicate so.

such as
FAMILY
FMILYNOTomMary



(e-mail address removed)



In windows outlook you could arrange your contacts so that a folder (family,
local friends, Veterans) etc. could be together and when you addressed the
email ...you could just select from one of your folders and address the mail.
NOW the folders don't show up and I have to select the addressee's from the
400 names in my contacts list. I hate this. Any suggestions? I don't want
to make groups for all of them...cause sometimes an email is only to a few
people in a folder. Any ideas?