Saving Another user's Distribution List to my Outlook

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Littlebear - 28 Nov 2006 14:56 GMT

Using Outlook 2000.

I have a DL from a former staff that I need to incorporate into my Contacts
for a monthly mailing sent from Outlook.

Please tell me there's an easy way to do this, so that I don't have to
retype them all. If not, alas typing away I shall be!

Thanks very much!

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Littlebear - 28 Nov 2006 15:15 GMT

A bit more information I failed to state. I have the DL in an email
attachment as a .msg. Clicking on it pulls up the list.

> Using Outlook 2000.
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> Thanks very much!

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Nov 2006 20:46 GMT

That won't work. You need to have the DL sent as an Outlook Item in an RTF
message if you are going to transfer it by email.

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Russ Valentine
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>A bit more information I failed to state. I have the DL in an email
> attachment as a .msg. Clicking on it pulls up the list.
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>> Thanks very much!

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Littlebear - 28 Nov 2006 20:55 GMT

I actually found a great workaround. Saved the list as a .txt, imported into
Excel, and simply copied/pasted into a new DL. Took only a few minutes, and
now I'm good to go!

Thank you Russ.

> That won't work. You need to have the DL sent as an Outlook Item in an RTF
> message if you are going to transfer it by email.
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> >> Thanks very much!

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Nov 2006 21:27 GMT

That will work as long as the addresses are formatted in a way that they can
be resolved by Outlook.

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>I actually found a great workaround. Saved the list as a .txt, imported
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