How do I send email to contacts living in a specific location?

[Type 181 Registry]

I have 3,340 subscribers to my periodic "Thing Grams" on VW Things and, on
occasion, have a need to tailor these to specific regions or states. In OE
all I had to do was click on a field at the top of the address book and it
would sort by location and I would select the contacts I needed.

Using Outlook "Help" between Accounts, Groups, Business contact mgrs, etc. I
am completely snowed.

How do I sort and send email to contacts from a specific location (field)?

In the Select names dialog box the contacts are alphabetical and there is no
way to sort by anything else as far as I can tell.

It appears that I can sort contacts by location in most of the "current
views" but I can't figure out how to transfer this info to Email.

I have just recently installed Office 2003 and changed from OE to Outlook
and can see that Outlook is considerably more powerful. My difficulties are
finding the small things that were so easy in OE. I need these as anchors to
keep me from being overwhelmed or I might just hang it up and go back to the
simpler OE. I'm sure the answers are in the help files but they are so huge
that I can't find the answers or I could be looking right at them and not
recognizing them.

Thank you,
Cheers,

David

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Close the address book. Go to your contacts folder. Create a new view that groups or sorts by location or whatever field you want . Select the items in the group you want to send to. You can then start a mail merge with those selected items (Tools | Mail Merge) or choose Tools | Actions to send a single message to all of them.