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Scotty - 04 Mar 2007 20:26 GMT

I have Outlook 2007.

I have been able to export a distribution list from Outlook as a txt file
separated by tab.

I am now trying to import this on another machine that has some of the
people in the distributio list but not others. The list is huge and I don't
want to do this one by one.

How can I import the distribution list?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Mar 2007 00:36 GMT

You can't. You can only import a tab or comma separated file into a Contacts
Folder, never a DL.
Why would you have exported a DL in the first place? You aren't changing
programs are you? This is Outlook. Outlook uses Outlook data, not other
formats. Leave your data in Outlook format. Always.

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>I have Outlook 2007.
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> How can I import the distribution list?

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Brian Tillman - 05 Mar 2007 02:29 GMT

> I have been able to export a distribution list from Outlook as a txt
> file separated by tab.
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> How can I import the distribution list?

While you can't import it, you can use copy/paste to rebuild the DL. Select
the list of names/addresses from the text file and paste it into the Members
field of the "Select Members" dialogue.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Mar 2007 10:25 GMT

Results will vary depending on the format of the data. Not sure it works
with a Tab delimited file.

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Russ Valentine
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>> I have been able to export a distribution list from Outlook as a txt
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> Select the list of names/addresses from the text file and paste it into
> the Members field of the "Select Members" dialogue.

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Brian Tillman - 05 Mar 2007 13:23 GMT

> Results will vary depending on the format of the data. Not sure it
> works with a Tab delimited file.

I tried it.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Mar 2007 20:43 GMT

Cool. How did you get the names and addresses to match, or did you just
paste addresses only?

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Russ Valentine
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>> Results will vary depending on the format of the data. Not sure it
>> works with a Tab delimited file.
>
> I tried it.

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Brian Tillman - 06 Mar 2007 04:10 GMT

> Cool. How did you get the names and addresses to match, or did you
> just paste addresses only?

If the format is

name<tab>addresses
name<tab>address
...etc...

the DL will sort it out.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 06 Mar 2007 10:07 GMT

Good to know.

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>> Cool. How did you get the names and addresses to match, or did you
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> the DL will sort it out.

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Scotty - 05 Mar 2007 20:01 GMT

Thanks all for the reply.

The pasting of the names/address's worked.

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