Organizing Windows Contacts

[SHSLP]

I have a number of contacts for which I only have a name and a phone number.
I use these for my cellphone normally, but they are included in my Windows
contacts folder. I wanted to organize my contacts so that only people that I
have an email address for, and that I normally correspond with, would show up
when I used Windows Mail to send an email. In other words, when I click the
"to" button on a new email.

I tried creating a group, but then I'm stuck sending email to everyone in
the group. I tried copying the names with email addresses that I normally
correspond with to a subfolder within Contacts, but Windows Mail insists on
just merging the contents of the subfolder with the main contacts folder when
I click the "To" button. Now I get TWO copies of the email list interspersed
with the non-email contacts.

How can I get Windows Mail to let me see and open the subfolder I created
that has only the addresses I want to use?

 

[SHSLP]

Thanks Brink,

#10 seems workable, but it would be much better if Windows Mail would just
recognize a subfolder and not merge it with the main contacts folder. Both 9
and 10 seem like crude workarounds for a problem that should not exist in the
first place.

Still, any solution to the problem is better than none. Thanks again

SHSLP

 

[SHSLP]

I just created a group, but when I tried opening contacts and the group to
select recipients for an email, the 'send email' choice was greyed out.
Apparently, this only works with a single addressee. This is just as bad as
having to send to everyone in the group, only harder.

The other option is just silly. I might as well just scroll through my
whole contacts folder and choose from that. It would be much simpler than
saving, opening from drafts, and deleting the ones I DON'T want to send to!
Is there any chance this will be fixed any time soon? I can't believe
Microsoft would deliberatly design something this screwed up.