Creating Distribution List through Copy/Paste

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Erick S.

In Outlook 2007

I would like to create a new Distribution List with about 60 contacts.

These contacts are not part of my contacts list.

I copied all these contacts from the "To:" and "CC:" line

i would like to paste all these new e-mail address into a distribution list.

Outlook seems to require me to save each contact, then select them from the
contacts list.

Is there any other way to create a distribution list faster?

-Erick
 
Erick S. said:
In Outlook 2007

I would like to create a new Distribution List with about 60 contacts.

These contacts are not part of my contacts list.

I copied all these contacts from the "To:" and "CC:" line

i would like to paste all these new e-mail address into a
distribution list.
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It is unlikely that it will work because the contact attribute containing
the mail address is not copied to the clipboard, only the display name. If
all the data you wish to copy contains only mail addresses or contains
DIsplay As data containing the mail addresses, you should be able to past
into the Members field in the Select Member dialogue and with a little
judicious editing get what you want, but if those fields contain Display As
data that does not contain addresses, you're out of luck.
 
Brian Tillman said:
It is unlikely that it will work because the contact attribute containing
the mail address is not copied to the clipboard, only the display name. If
all the data you wish to copy contains only mail addresses or contains
DIsplay As data containing the mail addresses, you should be able to past
into the Members field in the Select Member dialogue and with a little
judicious editing get what you want, but if those fields contain Display As
data that does not contain addresses, you're out of luck.
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Thank you for the explanation. it seems that I will have to copy each
individual address and put it in another file before copying and pasting back
into the select members dialog box.
 
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