Really? It took you TWO years to figure this out? So I guess dragging the
category to the inbox is too much trouble?

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After furious head scratching, Neil Mwombe asked:

| 1. Click Contacts
| 2. On the Contacts pane, under current view select By Category
| 3. On the Actions, go to New Message to Contact under Create New
| command and click Voila there you are ready to go
|
|
|
| Sea wrote:
|
| Outlook 2007: email everyone in a category
| 27-May-08
|
| How do I do this. So far everyone's description is very complex or
| wrong.
| eg. right-click and choose "New Message to Contact" - this is not an
| option
| when I right-click.
|
| Most of the explanations don't explain which page to start on Mail or
| Contacts, so I'm lost right from the start.
|
| Finally, why do all of these sound like a way to work around some
| f'up by microsoft. It seems like I've wasted my time making
| categories and I should
| have been making a contact list, but I can't place people in a
| contact list
| as I add them - I have to go edit the contact list after I create a
| new
| contact.
|
| Judy Gleeson, please don't help. I can't understand a word of your
| posts.
|
| Previous Posts In This Thread:
|
| On Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:01 PM
| Sea wrote:
|
| Outlook 2007: email everyone in a category
| How do I do this. So far everyone's description is very complex or
| wrong.
| eg. right-click and choose "New Message to Contact" - this is not an
| option
| when I right-click.
|
| Most of the explanations don't explain which page to start on Mail or
| Contacts, so I'm lost right from the start.
|
| Finally, why do all of these sound like a way to work around some
| f'up by microsoft. It seems like I've wasted my time making
| categories and I should
| have been making a contact list, but I can't place people in a
| contact list
| as I add them - I have to go edit the contact list after I create a
| new
| contact.
|
| Judy Gleeson, please don't help. I can't understand a word of your
| posts.
|
| On Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:45 PM
| Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\) wrote:
|
| What a challenge!
| What a challenge! For other readers if not for you Sean....
|
| 1 Start in the Contacts Folder.
| 2. Use a view that will group your Contacts By Category. The view
| is
| called By Category.
| 3 Select the Category of Contacts to merge. "Select" means make
| them highlighted. You can do that in many ways and at this stage
| I will
| assume you know how to select items. But come back and ask if you
| don't
| know how to select more than 1 thing at a time.
| 4. To email everyone in that Category, grab the Category heading
| (it will
| be a bar across the screen with the name of your Category group in
| it) with
| your left mouse button and drop it on your Inbox Folder. Release.
| 4a) Say Yes to the stupid message that creating a new item from these
| x
| Items may take some time.
| 5. The names of Contacts in that Category are now in the To...
| field of a
| new email.
| 6. Complete the content and click the send button.
|
| Explanations:
|
| Item means an Outlook "thing" it could be any type of thing eg an
| appointment, email, task, contact, note.
|
| Navigation Pane - the left side strip of the screen in Outlook 2002,
| 2003
| and 2007.
|
| Views are way of seeing the content of a folder. You can change
| views many
| ways. In 2007, the Navigation Pain has radio buttons to change views.
|
| Options:
|
| 1 if you don't want people in the To... field, once they are there,
| highlight them all (select them) and drag them to the BCC field. If
| the BCC
| field is not showing (in version 2007) the setting is on the Options
| Tab of
| the ribbon at top of screen.
|
| 2. If you want to email merge to this category of Contacts it's a
| little
| more complicated. Let me know if you want to know how.
|
| Regards
|
| Judy Gleeson
| MVP Outlook
| Trainer and Consultant www.pragmatix.com.au
| My suggested settings for Outlook 2003 are FREE on my website.
|
| .
| "Sean" wrote in message
| ...
|
| On Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:48 PM
| Diane Poremsky {MVP} wrote:
|
| Outlook 2007 moved New message to contact to the Create menu - so
| right click, Outlook 2007 moved New message to contact to the Create
| menu - so right
| click, Create, New message to contact.
|
| Doesn't anyone explore menus anymore?