Brian i cannot go to the inbox and say reply all because the answer to the
original message was send to me and i want to forward that to all my
students....
Let me see if I understand. You have received a forwarded message. That
message contains in its body a copy of a set of messages and you wish to
forward the entire message to each of the people named in the body. Is this
correct? If so, that portion of Diane's answer that reads "it's not
possible" applies. If there are real mail addresses contained in the body,
you can certainly forward your message and then copy/paste the addresses in
the body to the To field, but if there are only display names of people,
you're out of luck completely. The "thread" in the body of the message you
wish to forward doesn't contain any active contacts. It contains display
names and maybe addresses that you can copy, but the individual "messages"
within the "thread" aren't replyable. In fact, they're no longer real
messages since they contain no header information Outlook can use. They're
no different than anything you might manually type if you were composing the
mesage yourself. Don't you have a your students in your Contacts folder?