New to Vista Windows mail- had outlook express before.

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Reguarding address book- I create folders to separate friends into groups.
That worked. When composing an e-mail note I click on the To: button
expectiong to see each of my folders. Instead what I see is the complete
list - no folders. If I click on my "contacts" icon in the tool bar, the
folders are there.

How do I get my To: button to display the folders. ?
 
Thanks Gary, I'll save that link. Lets refine the question a little.
Thanks to your help I can now compose a new message to a group. Click on
contacts, group folder. I can send to the whole group or individuals within
by highlighting them. When ready i click on the e-mail icon in the tool bar
and the note is addressed. Perfect. !

Now here's the last mystery. How , do I send to a group when I want to
"FORWARD " an e-mail. When I click on forward, it opens the address control
box. Then i click on "TO", it opens my address book ( contacts) but the
contacts are not shown by groups. they are shown in one big list as if I have
no groups.

Outlook did this perfectly, the way I described the steps. There must be a
way, I'm thinking. What say you?
 
Outlook did this perfectly, the way I described the steps. There must be a
way, I'm thinking. What say you?
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Outlook never did that and it never could and never will. You are mistaking it for
Outlook Express. Outlook is part of Office (OL) and Outlook Express (OE) is part of
Internet Explorer
 
His post clearly said he was discussing OE. The question still needs an
answer--How do you forward an email using the contact groups or ???
 
That is admittedly awkward to do in Windows Mail.
You would have to start a new message as I described below, then copy
and paste the Group from the new message into the "To" field of the
forwarded message.

You will be much happier upgrading to Windows Live Mail. Not only
does it show the Groups when you click on 'To', you can also edit the
Group members on the fly if you wanted to exclude some of them.

Get Windows Live Mail here: http://download.live.com/wlmail
 
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