Create Mailing List In Outlook
How can you create contact groups in Outlook 2000?
I can create “Distribution Groups” for people whose E-Mail addresses I have, but I don’t have everyone’s e-mail address.
Since I have everybody’s phone numbers and only a few e-mail addresses, I’d like to just sort ALL of my contacts into groups in outlook; I have some 600 people on my contact list (imported from my phone and taken from work, including local businesses and such) so I’d like to be able to view people by group – such as “Work”, “Writing Circle”, “Biology Lab”, “Family”, and so on. I’d also like people to be able to be members of more than one group, so when I sort by groups they don’t have to exclusively be considered in one (my ex, for example, is in both my writing circle and bio lab).
How do I do this?
Use give category to each contact to make contact groups
1. go to outlook menu, edit, categories, master category list button, put the category “Work”, “Writing Circle”, “Biology Lab”, “Family”, 1 by 1 in to the box(no quotes) next to add button, click add button to add them all as custom categories.
2. go to contact folder, use ctrl+click select the contacts that is on the same group, say “Work”, right click on the selection, choose categories, select the box next to work that line, click ok button, then the group for “work” is done, continue until all the intended categories are assigned.
3. to view your contacts in groups, go to contact folder, go to menu, view, current view, by category.
Hope this helps.
Creating a Distribution List in Outlook