Distribution List QUestion

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Tom

Well it's that time of year, and I am, for one, grateful for email. I have
several hundred holiday greetings to send out. And my question is simply
this:

Is it possible to create a Distribution List in Outlook 2003 and send a
BLIND copy of a holiday greeting to everyone on the Distribution List in one
large BCC or "Blind Copy" entry containing all the addressees? If so, what
are the steps.

Also, is it possible for any recipient of a "blind copy" to be able to
examine the "raw" text of my email and retrieve the names of everyone on the
list? This concerns me greatly. So putting it another way is there any
better way that I might be overlooking to insure that my recipients list is
kept confidential?

I'm new to Outlook so please be specific.

Thanks.
 
You make it sound so easy, but considering that I've never used Excel, would
you be able to recommend an "idiot proof" third party product?

Another thing. Finding the "suspect subplicate" is part the problem. All I
know from Coutlook is that I havee hundreds of NEAR duplicates. What makes
them near duplicates is that the address info is normally identical. What
varies is a few innocuous entries in the notes.



Hi Tom,

What I have done in the past is export the contacts to a CSV file,
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import into Excel, sort by the suspect duplicate field ... then delete
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the dups (you can write a fairly simple
VBA

macro to do this if you want to automate it).

Once you have finished in Excel save to a CSV file, delete all of your
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current contacts in Outlook then import the CSV.
HTH
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Regards,
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Harvey Yancey [MSFT]
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