contacts

[pender]

I am new to Vista. With outlook express I created folders with specific
contacts in them. I could hit "Create Mail", click on "To" and select which
folder I wanted. then in each folder I could determine who I wanted to send
it to.

How do I arrange this same thing in Vista???

 

[Dave]

You really can't do it like in OE.
You can create folders in the Contacts folder, but they won't appear when
you click on To:
You can open the Contacts folder, open the sub-folder, and right-click on a
contact and select Action - send Email

 

[pender]

Action did not work. A pop-up said there was no Profile, and to go to the
control panel and set one up. So I did and now it works like the old OE.
Here is what I did:
Control Panel>Mail>Show Profile>Add (give a name)
Add New Directory..>Additional Address Book>Personal Book (I gave same name)
Select the order for the names>next>OK (ok for book with no names)

Now when I send e-mail I click Contacts, select the sub-folder I have
created for the different groups (school, Girl Scouts, family, etc.) and
select the names within that group. Now right click and select Action>send
mail...and it works!!!

Ed

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Action did not work. A pop-up said there was no Profile, and to go to the
control panel and set one up. So I did and now it works like the old OE.
Here is what I did:
Control Panel>Mail>Show Profile>Add (give a name)
Add New Directory..>Additional Address Book>Personal Book (I gave same
name)
Select the order for the names>next>OK (ok for book with no names)

Now when I send e-mail I click Contacts, select the sub-folder I have
created for the different groups (school, Girl Scouts, family, etc.) and
select the names within that group. Now right click and select
Action>send
mail...and it works!!!

Ed

I'll bet it worked because you ended up in Outlook, not Windows Mail.
That's why you had to create a profile.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Settings in Control Panel >Mail only affect Outlook. It should not
affect anything in Windows Mail.

 

[stanley]

I opened the control panel but did not have "mail" icon. I was advised that
it was not possible to have sub-folders in Windows Mail so I have downloaded
Thunderbird - works like OE for the most part with a few bonus features.
Stan

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Their won't be a Mail icon in Control Panel until Outlook is installed.

 

[Beejaysoo]

Sooooo....are we all agreeing that WLM/Vista can NOT do what Pender was
hoping for. I was hoping for the same thing and just installed WLM with
expectation that I would have this feature of sub-folders in the contact
files. Like Pender, I don't want to pick through all my contacts to pick out
the selected few I might want from a sub-folder.

Thanks,

bj