address books

[pmitchell]

The instructions say that contact folders have replaced address books. I
made the contact folders as instructed. However, when I click 'send' to add
my recipient to the email, all five of my email contact folder addresses
appear in the window, NOT in folders, but all 119 address entries in
alphabetical order. How do you get the folders to appear in the 'choose
recipient box' so that I can email a few from one group without going
through 119 addresses, since the point of address books (contact folders) is
to make it EASIER to email, not harder.

PM

 

[Dave]

You can't.

(stock reply)
You can create folders for the contacts, but Windows Mail will not show
them when you click on To:, CC: or BCC:

However, you can do it bassackwards if you have folders... open your
Contacts folder, open your sub-folder, select your recipient(s),
right-click, select Action - Send Email

and, you can create Groups, which are mail lists of selected contacts.

To sort:
In the Contacts folder:
Change the View to "Details".
Right-click on the "Name" column heading, click on "First Name", then click
on "Last Name"
Click on the "Last Name" heading to sort by that, or click on "First Name"
heading to sort by that.

In a Create Mail window:
Click on To:
Click on the "Name" column heading... it cycles thru 4 different sorts

In the Contact Properties:
click on the down arrow at the end of the Full Name box