distribution lists in Contacts

[pack815]

Can a distribution list in someone's personal Contact lists be moved or
shared with another person where the detail portion of each contact also is
shared?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

No. DL's contain no Contact detail other than name and email address.
What sort of sharing are you trying to achieve? Are you using Exchange
Server?

 

[pack815]

Apparently, entries in the person Contact address books has the "details"
portion of the entry completed. They have used these single entries to
create an distribution list located in "Contracts." They now want to share
this distribution list with another but they want the "details" portion of
the entries to travel with the distribution list.

Your message reads like when a distributiion list is created only the name
and email address make up the components of the list, which does make sense.

Thanks for the information.

No. DL's contain no Contact detail other than name and email address.
What sort of sharing are you trying to achieve? Are you using Exchange
Server?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Can a distribution list in someone's personal Contact lists be moved or
shared with another person where the detail portion of each contact also
is
shared?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Correct. The DL can be "shared" by sending it as an Outlook Item to another
user. But any link to the underlying Contact Records from which it was
created is broken.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Apparently, entries in the person Contact address books has the "details"
portion of the entry completed. They have used these single entries to
create an distribution list located in "Contracts." They now want to
share
this distribution list with another but they want the "details" portion of
the entries to travel with the distribution list.

Your message reads like when a distributiion list is created only the name
and email address make up the components of the list, which does make
sense.

Thanks for the information.

No. DL's contain no Contact detail other than name and email address.
What sort of sharing are you trying to achieve? Are you using Exchange
Server?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Can a distribution list in someone's personal Contact lists be moved or
shared with another person where the detail portion of each contact
also
is
shared?

 

[pack815]

Thanks. This was very helpful.

Correct. The DL can be "shared" by sending it as an Outlook Item to another
user. But any link to the underlying Contact Records from which it was
created is broken.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Apparently, entries in the person Contact address books has the "details"
portion of the entry completed. They have used these single entries to
create an distribution list located in "Contracts." They now want to
share
this distribution list with another but they want the "details" portion of
the entries to travel with the distribution list.

Your message reads like when a distributiion list is created only the name
and email address make up the components of the list, which does make
sense.

Thanks for the information.

No. DL's contain no Contact detail other than name and email address.
What sort of sharing are you trying to achieve? Are you using Exchange
Server?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Can a distribution list in someone's personal Contact lists be moved or
shared with another person where the detail portion of each contact
also
is
shared?

 

[sue840]

Hi,
I have multiple distribution list in my outllook contacts, that I want to
export to Excel Files, I mean I didvided the contacts into distribution
lists, like: doctors, lawyers, NGOs,, etc... to be easy to work with when I
want to send emails, but I can't make copy of this lists by category, I don't
want to copy all the contacts, just the distribution list I want,, How to do
that???
Thank you.

 

[Russ Valentine]

Save it as a text file then use Excel to open it and convert it to a CSV or
Tab delimited file.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

I have multiple distribution list in my outllook contacts, that I want to
export to Excel Files, I mean I didvided the contacts into distribution
lists, like: doctors, lawyers, NGOs,, etc... to be easy to work with when I
want to send emails, but I can't make copy of this lists by category, I
don't
want to copy all the contacts, just the distribution list I want,, How to do
that???

Open the DL and click File>Save As. Specify "Text" as the Save As Type. It
will be saved as a tab-delimited text file which Excel can read.