Multiple Address Books

[Alpac1t]

In Outlook Express, multiple address books were allowed. When you were
composing an email message and clicked the "show address book" icon, you had
the option to choose which of your categories of addresses (friends, work1,
work2, whatever) you saw and then selected from.

In Windows Mail, you can create folders to put contacts in, which is the
equivalent of the address books in Outlook Express. However, when you are
composing a message and click on the "to" (show contacts) icon, you see a
list of ALL contacts, not just those from a particular folder.

My question is: if you have a folder of contacts called "Work1", and you are
composing a message, is it possible to somehow select "Work1" as the ONLY set
of contacts you will see?

The literature on Windows Mail says it has "all the features of Outlook
Express and more." Well, multiple address books was a feature, so where is it
in Windows Mail?

Thanks for whatever help you can provide.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

That feature is not available in Windows Mail.
Windows Live Mail has a similar feature where you can switch to a
different set of Contacts by selecting a different Live ID.
To upgrade to Windows Live Mail: http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Alpac1t]

Thanks very much, Gary. It wasn't the answer I wanted, but at least it was
clear and definitive. I guess when MS says "Windows Mail includes ALL the
features of Outlook Express..." they mean all the features they decided to
include. If you get the chance (I assume that as an MVP you have some special
pipelines into Redmond), please tell them that the lack of multiple address
books in WM forced me to Thunderbird, which does support multiple address
books and which I'm now happily using. Well, not happily, but at least it has
the essential features that I need.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You're very welcome. Sorry I didn't have better news for you.