Outlook Exp. could group contacts, how to in Vista HP Mail?

[Guest]

Windows XP and its predecessors were able to group contacts in the address
book. So you could select a group of email addresses give it a name and then
you could send to the group. This avoids having to select them individually
each time you send.
Is this option available in Vista Home Premium?

 

[Jim Pickering]

Open the Contacts option and select from the menu (blue bar) - New Contact
Group. Give it a name and addresses and you should be in business. For
some reason, they (Groups) don't appear to be maintained during the import
process.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jim, I have opened contacts by clicking contacts icon. This opens an
explorer view of contacts in right pane. On the icon menu there is only
"Organize", "Views" and "Burn" The menu bar above has "File" When I select
File\New\ It only gives me contact as an option, not "New Contact Group"
Am I in the wrong window???

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

With Contacts open, right-click in an open area of that screen, select
Customize This Folder, then change the template type to Contacts.
You should only have to do this once.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Jim Pickering]

Gary has given you an answer (right clicking in the open Contacts folder and
select Customize), but the quickest way to get info is to use Help and
Search by entering a phrase in the search box such as "Creating contact
groups (mailing lists)." Good luck.

 

[Guest]

This doesn't help at all, when I right click on contacts and select
"customize" I get to customize the tool bar. I hate this...I want to be able
to select a group and select the email addresses from there. I don't want
all 500 people in my address book to show when I select the blind option.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Don't right-click on Contacts.
Open Contacts, then right-click in an empty area of the far right pane.
Select "Customize This Folder", then change the template type to Contacts.
You should only have to do this once.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

I have the individuals all in groups, but when I select blind or cc from the
message every single person in the address book appears. In Outlook express
I could choose the group I wanted to select. I don't always want to send a
message to everyone in a group. I do have some of them in a group email.

 

[KathyA]

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KAA

 

[KathyA]

did you get an answer to this? I know just what you're talking about and have
been unable to set up 'contact groups' as it does not appear on my toolbar

 

[Dave]

When you have the Contacts folder open, you should have a button on the
toolbar for "New Contact Group". If you don't see this button, perhaps the
folder template got changed, as it sometimes does...
Right-click on a blank area of the right pane, and select "Customize this
folder"
in the pull-down box, select "Contacts"
OK

 

[AliMcJ]

At last! Thank you.

Vista help is no help -- the suggestion to get questions and answers from
communities is the only place any useful information appears. What a
nightmare this is.

Thank you so much for helping us to apply our intelligence to this
counter-intuitive program -- and for being a part of writing their help
manual! Are they going to pay us for testing out this tank?

--AliMcJ

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Glad to have helped.