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RodK - 20 Sep 2007 11:54 GMT

Without making them a contact first? Outlook 2003

Thanks for the help-
BMHAAW

Rod

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 20 Sep 2007 12:03 GMT

Yes. That's what the "Add New..." button is for in the DL dialog.

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> Without making them a contact first? Outlook 2003
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> Thanks for the help-
> BMHAAW
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> Rod

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RodK - 20 Sep 2007 12:40 GMT

As I understand it you have to type in the email address when you use the Add
New button. I'd like to take an email that a person sends me and use it to
add them to a personal distribution list.
You'd think you could drag and drop the email on the distribution list to
add them to the DL. Tried it but it doesn't work.

Thanks,
Rod

> Yes. That's what the "Add New..." button is for in the DL dialog.
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Brian Tillman - 20 Sep 2007 18:29 GMT

> I'd like to take an email that a person sends me
> and use it to add them to a personal distribution list.

There's no feature in Outlook to do that. Why are you averse to adding them
as a contact?

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RodK - 20 Sep 2007 20:38 GMT

There is 180 of them. I might have to buy a 3rd party software to do the
trick.

Thanks,
Rod

> > I'd like to take an email that a person sends me
> > and use it to add them to a personal distribution list.
>
> There's no feature in Outlook to do that. Why are you averse to adding them
> as a contact?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 20 Sep 2007 21:46 GMT

That's a different question than the one you asked. Outlook can't do that.
You will quickly discover that DL's are not robust, are fragile and
unreliable. Most of us stopped using them years ago. You might want to
consider one of the better supported methods for grouping Contacts, like
Categories or separate subfolders.

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Brian Tillman - 20 Sep 2007 18:25 GMT

> Without making them a contact first? Outlook 2003

Click Select Members, and enter the email address in the Members field. If
you want to give the member a name in the DL's Name field, use the Add New
button instead.

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