Groups problems fix, Folders Workaround

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Nita Klew

I must be missing something. Wouldn't it be easier to just create a contact
group, then send the e-mail message to the group?
 
For all you fellow losers out there that are running Vista Windows Mail and
miss their Groups from Outlook or Outlook Express, I have a found a
workaround after a week of trial and error.

I hope Microsoft is listening when I say: This is an unforgivable error and
a marketing blunder. My Outlook Express worked just fine. Why take it away
from me and force me to use a new product that has horrific shortcomings in
it? This has cost me days of my life to make it usable. PLEASE fix it right
quickly!

OK, I’m done venting. Now to the temporary workaround.

1. Open Windows Explorer, go to C:\users\you\documents\Contacts
2. Make new sub folders for “friendsâ€, “familyâ€, “workâ€, etc.
3. Move or copy contacts into each of these sub folders from the main folder
4. For each folder (I’ll use family as an example):
a. Open the folder
b. Double click on the first contact listed to open it’s properties
c. Go to the Home tab at the top of the screen
d. Enter the word “family†in the street field
e. Highlight “family†and hit Control-C to copy; click OK
f. For each member of the Family Folder, repeat this process
g. Use the Control-V to paste “family†and save typing
5. To use, open Windows Mail, create a new mail or forward an old one
6. Click the “TO†button; click “find†button; Look in = Windows Contacts
7. Put “family†in the address field; click the “find now†button
8. Select the desired emails (use your SHIFT and Control keys for shortcuts)
9. Click on the TO, CC or BCC buttons, click OK, and SEND
10. HINT: BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy. PLEASE use it for most of your
forwards. It stops all the recipients from seeing all of the address of any
of the other recipients.

Hope this helps. Pat Cremin, CCS
 
It would, if you always wanted to send the message to every member of the
group. I almost always want to send to only some of the members of the group.
For example, when one family member sends me an email and I want to forward
it to some or most of the members of my family group, but not back to the
originator.
 
Wouldn't it be easier to use a contact group and copy and paste from TO to
BCC then r/c and delete ones you don't want. No need to use a keyboard
either.
 
that's why I have multiple groups designated as "not" xxx.
familynotme
familynotyou

etc...

(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com

It would, if you always wanted to send the message to every member of the
group. I almost always want to send to only some of the members of the group.
For example, when one family member sends me an email and I want to forward
it to some or most of the members of my family group, but not back to the
originator.
 
When a group is selected, does it populate the To (or CC or BCC)
field with the individual addresses? If so, after you select the larger
group (Family), simply delete the one address you don't want.

Gary VanderMolen
 
Pat:

I think you are the only one that truly "gets it". I hate having to sort
through hundreds of "contacts" when I could previously organize contacts in
folders like "friends", "business", etc. which would come up in a convenient
drop down menu in OE. Your fix seems to work but is still a hassle compared
to OE.

Has there been a fix or another way of doing this since your posting of
2/28/07?

Dave Farris
 
Pat,

Thanks very much for a useful work-around. Yes this is a significant
blunder but I doubt they will listen to mere mortals. I wonder if problems
like this are actually "features" designed to promote sales of MS Office
packages.
 
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