contact list groupings in 2007

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In outlook 2007 they have a newish contacts groups system based on color
codes which you can rename and change etc.
I have 2 questions relating to these color coded categories in 2007
1) After a lot of searching i found that to email everybody in a group you
have to drag the group from the contacts pane to the mail tooltip by the left
side, but...isn't there anyway of doing this from within the email editor? I
rememebr that in previous versions of outlook I could select entire groups
from the address book within the email editor - I can't figure out how to do
this in outlook. I mainly need to do this because I use Msoft Word (2007) to
write my emails, and I can't "drag" and "drop" the group name into msoft word
(If i'm not being clear then, for example, in the yellow category i have 2
contacts, I want to email to both of them, but I would like to email to the
group "Yellow Contacts" instead of finding their email addresses and typing
it in)

2) This new color coding system...could i maybe see a tinge or hint of those
colors in business card view? You know...like in the business card view
people in the yellow group maybe have a yellow border around it?

The first issue is a lot more important to me than the second one (As the
second one is pureley for aesthetical reasons) any help would be appreciated.
 
1) No, and this is no change from the way earlier versions operated. If you want to send a message to a group of people by category, you have two ways to do it -- perform a mail merge with Word, preferably starting from Outlook, or use the By Category view to select all the contacts in a category and either drag them, as you describe, or use the Actions | New Message command.

2) Cool idea! Why don't you repost as a suggestion?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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