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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / November 2005How do you forward a message to a category group?
I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a simple way to *forward* a message to a group without having to cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying the original message to a new one? Thanks, Alan Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to particular >goups just fine. The big question is: is there a simple way to *forward* [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Alan And this makes category views better than a classic DL how? (It's a rhetorical question; I know the official party line on it.) Does/will O12 let you use a category view by name as a recipient, or is it going to be the same farkled cluster-poopie we've got now? > Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is. >>I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to particular [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> >> Alan Doesn't drag and drop work? SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is. || I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] || || Alan Try it and see. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Doesn't drag and drop work? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > || > || Alan I just did. I displayed the contacts folder in a new window, dragged the DL from the contact window to the forwarded message TO: field and it sent just fine. I forwarded it to my internal GAL but I think it should work for other forwards to DLs as well. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | Try it and see. || Doesn't drag and drop work? [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] |||| |||| Alan Oh, and in case I misunderstood, I tried forwarding with the Categories view displayed, again dragged and dropped the category from the contacts to the message TO: header already selected for forwarding. Am I missing something here? SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | Try it and see. || Doesn't drag and drop work? [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] |||| |||| Alan You were. DL's were not in play. Now I can't tell. I can't reproduce what you did. When I try to drag a category to the BCC field of a messaging I am forwarding, no valid email addresses are transferred and Outlook crashes. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Oh, and in case I misunderstood, I tried forwarding with the Categories > view [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > |||| > |||| Alan Hmmm - let's discuss this offlist. I may be doing something that you aren't and could be configured differently (using Exchange 2003 here.) Email me privately. We will get this sorted. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | You were. DL's were not in play. | Now I can't tell. I can't reproduce what you did. When I try to drag a [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] |||||| |||||| Alan Will do. This would be a good solution if I could get it to work. Now you see why I didn't provide D/D as a solution ;) SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Hmmm - let's discuss this offlist. I may be doing something that you > aren't [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > |||||| > |||||| Alan Russ and I tested this offline and... drum roll please, RUSS IS CORRECT. I used a rarely seen and probably never used configuration that is probably never seen in real life. But I am an MVP so real life rarely impacts me - I live in newsgroups and discussion forums. I have to get out more. Thanks Russ for the non-repro. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | Will do. This would be a good solution if I could get it to work. Now | you see why I didn't provide D/D as a solution ;) [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] |||||||| |||||||| Alan Just what is this rarely seen config? The environments I'm looking to solve this for are all SBS2003, E2003, and OL2003. I haven't paid much attention to DLs on the Outlook side for years now since I mainly develop LOB and server-side apps. When they involve sending mail, they're mostly pulling the addies from SQL or AD repositories, not Exchange. I got dragged into this OL thing because several clients are wanting to consolidate Exchange, SharePoint, and their SQL database contacts. BTW, are there any good how-tos for actually implementing contact consolidation? I come across tons and tons of marketing fluff that waxes poetic and sensual about the advantages of the product line for doing this, but no actual nuts-and-bolts examples that address multiple point-of-service/single repository scenarios. The few marginally useful items up on MS all have odd-man-out scenarios where Outlook or SharePoint gets stuck in read-only land. Tanx, Alan > Russ and I tested this offline and... drum roll please, RUSS IS CORRECT. > I [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > |||||||| > |||||||| Alan |
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