Windows Mail - select recipients - help!

[Guest]

When I am sending an email, I go to 'tools' and then 'select recipients.' In
Internet Explorer, the drop down had my file folders with the names I could
select. In Windows Mail, the dropdown lists every person in every file in
random order and no actual files. I looked everywhere to find a setting to
allow me to simply look into my files for email addresses. What do I need to
do to be able to see my address file folders? I spend hours searching down
the list to pick out the people to whom I need to send my emails. I have
Vista Home Premium.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Microsoft wants you to learn a different way to start a new email.
Click on Create Mail, then click on "To:" and then select the recipients,
which should appear in alphabetical order.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

When I start a new email the way you have suggested below, the file I get
sent to is different than what is in my contacts folder (contacts folder has
names alphabetically by last name; the select recipients folder has different
names). Any ideas?

Tom Keene

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Click on the Name column header and it will cycle the contacts list
through four different sorting arrangements.

 

[Dave]

I don't know what you're responding to, but it's really easy to sort the
Contacts.

In the Contacts folder:
Change the View to "Details".
Right-click on the "Name" column heading, click on "First Name", then click
on "Last Name"
Click on the "Last Name" heading to sort by that, or click on "First Name"
heading to sort by that.

In a Create Mail window:
Click on To:
Click on the "Name" column heading... it cycles thru 4 different sorts

In the Contact Properties:
click on the down arrow at the end of the Full Name box

 

[Dave]

Can you please explain in detail what you are trying to do, and what is
happening?