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Old 07-14-2008   #4 (permalink)
Brink


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Re: Organizing Windows Contacts

Your welcome SHSLP,

I agree, it would be nice to be able to just simply use folders and subfolders instead.

Shawn


Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by SHSLP View Post
Thanks Brink,

#10 seems workable, but it would be much better if Windows Mail would just
recognize a subfolder and not merge it with the main contacts folder. Both 9
and 10 seem like crude workarounds for a problem that should not exist in the
first place.

Still, any solution to the problem is better than none. Thanks again

SHSLP

"Brink" wrote:
Quote:
>
> Hello SHSLP,
>
> Steps 9 and 10 in Section Two of this tutorial will show you how you
> send a email to a individual contact from a Contact Group. This way you
> can have them organized in groups and do not have to send to the whole
> group if you do not want to.
>
> Contact Groups in Windows Mail
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> SHSLP;775639 Wrote:
Quote:
> > I have a number of contacts for which I only have a name and a phone
> > number.
> > I use these for my cellphone normally, but they are included in my
> > Windows
> > contacts folder. I wanted to organize my contacts so that only people
> > that I
> > have an email address for, and that I normally correspond with, would
> > show up
> > when I used Windows Mail to send an email. In other words, when I click
> > the
> > "to" button on a new email.
> >
> > I tried creating a group, but then I'm stuck sending email to everyone
> > in
> > the group. I tried copying the names with email addresses that I
> > normally
> > correspond with to a subfolder within Contacts, but Windows Mail
> > insists on
> > just merging the contents of the subfolder with the main contacts
> > folder when
> > I click the "To" button. Now I get TWO copies of the email list
> > interspersed
> > with the non-email contacts.
> >
> > How can I get Windows Mail to let me see and open the subfolder I
> > created
> > that has only the addresses I want to use?
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
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