Moving Contacts from Distribution list to Contacts area

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Jody-Prof. Organizer/Business Consultant

Version 2003. How can you move contacts that were created only within a
distribution list to the contacts area? I can't drag and drop them, and they
were not originally added to the full Contacts list when they were created.
 
You create Contacts correctly. File > New > Contact.
You cannot import a DL into your Contacts. It might be possible to save your
DL as a text file, convert it to CSV than import the members to a Contacts
Folder. Good luck with that.
 
Ok--thanks for the definitive on that. Wasn't sure if I missed something
somewhere or not. Happy 4th!

Russ Valentine said:
You create Contacts correctly. File > New > Contact.
You cannot import a DL into your Contacts. It might be possible to save your
DL as a text file, convert it to CSV than import the members to a Contacts
Folder. Good luck with that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jody-Prof. Organizer/Business Consultant"
Version 2003. How can you move contacts that were created only within a
distribution list to the contacts area? I can't drag and drop them, and
they
were not originally added to the full Contacts list when they were
created.
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It is possible in Outlook 2007 at least
you can try in other version too, I suppose it would work
Save your Distribution list as a text file rtf or other
Open the file Select all Copy
Open a blank Excel file, Paste all in it
Save as a csv file
then go to Outlook and import that csv file in your contacts and it is done
don't buy any conversion software free and easy
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Thanks to all

I am running laptop Dell D800
1 Gg RAM
Xp Pro
Office 2007


Russ Valentine said:
You create Contacts correctly. File > New > Contact.
You cannot import a DL into your Contacts. It might be possible to save your
DL as a text file, convert it to CSV than import the members to a Contacts
Folder. Good luck with that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jody-Prof. Organizer/Business Consultant"
Version 2003. How can you move contacts that were created only within a
distribution list to the contacts area? I can't drag and drop them, and
they
were not originally added to the full Contacts list when they were
created.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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