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contact list groupings in 2007

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Gupta A. - 29 May 2006 14:37 GMT
In outlook 2007 they have a newish contacts groups system based on color
codes which you can rename and change etc.
I have 2 questions relating to these color coded categories in 2007
1) After a lot of searching i found that to email everybody in a group you
have to drag the group from the contacts pane to the mail tooltip by the left
side, but...isn't there anyway of doing this from within the email editor? I
rememebr that in previous versions of outlook I could select entire groups
from the address book within the email editor - I can't figure out how to do
this in outlook. I mainly need to do this because I use Msoft Word (2007) to
write my emails, and I can't "drag" and "drop" the group name into msoft word
(If i'm not being clear then, for example, in the yellow category i have 2
contacts, I want to email to both of them, but I would like to email to the
group "Yellow Contacts" instead of finding their email addresses and typing
it in)

2) This new color coding system...could i maybe see a tinge or hint of those
colors in business card view? You know...like in the business card view
people in the yellow group maybe have a yellow border around it?

The first issue is a lot more important to me than the second one (As the
second one is pureley for aesthetical reasons) any help would be appreciated.
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 29 May 2006 14:46 GMT
1) No, and this is no change from the way earlier versions operated. If you want to send a message to a group of people by category, you have two ways to do it -- perform a mail merge with Word, preferably starting from Outlook, or use the By Category view to select all the contacts in a category and either drag them, as you describe, or use the Actions | New Message command.

2) Cool idea! Why don't you repost as a suggestion?

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> In outlook 2007 they have a newish contacts groups system based on color
> codes which you can rename and change etc.
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> The first issue is a lot more important to me than the second one (As the
> second one is pureley for aesthetical reasons) any help would be appreciated.
 
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