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Spike9458

Using MS Office 2003, I have a contacts database with over 500 contacts in
it. Is there a way to assign the categories so that when I get ready for
sending them all an email, it only goes to the ones in a particular
category?

My email server has limits of 98 addresses in the bcc field per email, 500
per hour. So, I've set up the categories XYZ 1, ZYZ 2, etc.

This is the only workaround I know of. If anybody can shed some light to
help make this project a little more manageable, I'd be forever indebted to
you.

thanks in advance,

--Jim
 
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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]

You can send to a particular category by switching your Contacts folder view
to By Category, selecting the category to send to, and choosing New message
to contact from the Actions menu.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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DennisC

Hi,
If I understand you correctly creating distribution lists will solve the
problem.
Open Outlook and then the address book. Click New Entry and then
distribution
list. You should immediately see the concept.
DennisC
 
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Spike9458

I got this figured out. I was looking for an easier way to do the
distribution lists ... and I did. I'm all set now, thanks for the response.

--Jim
 
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Spike9458

See, what happened is I did get the categories all assigned by exporting the
entire folder to Excel, filled the column (having each line numbered made it
a breeze), then I saved it to a text file and imported it back into the same
folder, overwriting what was already there. However, the field for listing
by category won't allow sorting that list by category ... so that list was
all messed up. After much messing around with it, I got my task
accomplished. It just wasn't as easy ...

Thank-you for your response.

--Jim
 
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