Olafsdottir/Masson

Pat Cremin, you are a genie! You solved a difficault problem for me, to send
one e-mail to many people without having to look for them in my crowded
contacts´ list. Vista recommends to hit a "New Contact Group" button on my
toolbar. There is no such button. But now I can send all my "Mother´s
Family" contacts (23) the same mail without much trouble. Thank you very
much.
Mar Vidar Masson, Reykjavik
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"Pat Cremin, CCS" wrote:

> 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 “friends”, “family”, “work”, 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
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