Send email to contacts in categories

[Andrew Patterson]

Within my Outlook 2003 I have many folders within the Contacts folder.
In one of those folders named Clients I have many categories for the
contacts in that folder. So each contact is categorized in the Clients
folder.

What I would like to do is email only certain categories of contacts
in this Clients folder. Using a Distribution List I cannot find a way
to do this. The only semi-solution I have found is to create a new
folder under my Clients folder (perhaps call it Temporary Contacts
Email Group) and simply drag the category I wish to email into that
new email folder. Then, I can create a new Distribution List (under
Actions) and mark that folder as the list, thereby emailing the
category(ies) I dragged into the folder.

While this works, I believe it is a sloppy way to do things. I am
dealing with hundreds of important client names and email addresses
and I would really rather not have to move them around within Outlook.

Does anybody know a REAL way to create Distribution Lists for
categories?

Thanks,

Andrew Patterson
Singapore

 

[KL]

One way I can see to do this. While in your contacts,
View|Current View| By Category.

Then you can select the names under the category you want
and from the menu Action|New Mail to contact.

I haven't found a way to add those names to a dist list
though.