create a custom view in contacts that shows just the address - copy then
paste into the To field. if that fails something else is wrong.

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>I am trying to send an e-mail through AOL to all of the contacts in our
> outlook database. I cant seem to figure out how to export only a list of
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> select anything inside of parenthesis, but i dont know the commands to do
> that. someone help please