Plz advise - lost entire distribution list - isn't in the deleted

[Guest]

Dear friends,

I really need some help. I sent an email to a distribution list of hundreds
of reciepients and after I sent the email, I received one unsubscribe, so I
went to get the distribution list and it wasn't there! It isn't in my
deleted folder and I am so worried.

I do have the BCC list but how do I take hundreds of emails and create a new
distribution list?

Thank you so much!

DW

 

[Guest]

I assume this is a distribution list you created locally, and not one that is
located on a central server like Exchange?

Are all of those e-mail addresses already Outlook Contacts? If so, you can
just create a new DL and select members from the Contacts folder to add to
it. However, you should know that distribution lists are notoriously flaky
in Outlook. There are other, more reliable ways to send messages to the same
group of people on a regular basis. For example, you could assign all of
those contacts to a new category (it would not delete any categories they
might already be in), then when you need to send a message to them, switch to
the By Category view of your Contacts folder, select the group header of the
category, then choose "New Message to Contact". (The exact steps for that
depend on your version of Outlook, which you didn't provide). It will put
all the e-mail addresses in the To field, but you can easily move them to the
BCC field.

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[Guest]

Thank you so much.

I have Outlook 2007 and I'm wondering if I can create an excel file and use
that to add/delete contacts into a distribution list and then use that same
excel file to send to a group of contacts?

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

 

[Guest]

I don't think you could use the Excel file to populate a DL in Outlook. You
could use it to create new contacts and then put them into a DL, but it
doesn't sound like that's what you want to do.

You can use your Excel list as the data file for a mail merge in Outlook.
See http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.htm for more information.

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