Vista - Contacts (address book)

In XP, I have my address book broken down into sub-folders for family,
friends, work, etc.

I've imported all my contacts from my XP address book and separated the
contacts into the various folders just as in XP..
When I bring up the contacts through Windows Mail, everything looks proper.
When I try to forward a message, and click the "to" button, It gives me the
entire listing of my contacts folder without regard to the folders I've
created. I see no option so see the contacts in sub-folders.

Is this by design, or am I missing something?

I think it's by design. In Outlook Express, Folders and Groups were only
visible to the identity that created them. With Windows Mail in Vista,
Identities are not used and I've not been able to see any way to create a
Folder for a particular group of contacts. At this stage of the program, I
don't think it will be changed, but you might want to submit a bug about it
and see what comments you get from the Product Team.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
feedback.


"Ron Radliff" <rr2@cableone.net> wrote in message
news:FAE5D178-3DA7-426D-BB2C-76932132AFDA@microsoft.com...
> In XP, I have my address book broken down into sub-folders for family,
> friends, work, etc.
>
> I've imported all my contacts from my XP address book and separated the
> contacts into the various folders just as in XP..
> When I bring up the contacts through Windows Mail, everything looks
> proper.
> When I try to forward a message, and click the "to" button, It gives me
> the entire listing of my contacts folder without regard to the folders
> I've created. I see no option so see the contacts in sub-folders.
>
> Is this by design, or am I missing something?
>
>

OK, thanks for the info. I'll drop a bug report as you suggest. In the
meantime, the address book is basically useless for me. I have over 100
addresses there and frequently send emails to 20 or so people at a time.
I'll just use Thunderbird for the time being.


"Jim Pickering" <jimp@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:31265255-3450-4E1E-84B8-14378ADAD442@microsoft.com...
>I think it's by design. In Outlook Express, Folders and Groups were only
>visible to the identity that created them. With Windows Mail in Vista,
>Identities are not used and I've not been able to see any way to create a
>Folder for a particular group of contacts. At this stage of the program, I
>don't think it will be changed, but you might want to submit a bug about it
>and see what comments you get from the Product Team.
> --
> Jim Pickering
> MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
> Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
> feedback.
>
>
> "Ron Radliff" <rr2@cableone.net> wrote in message
> news:FAE5D178-3DA7-426D-BB2C-76932132AFDA@microsoft.com...
>> In XP, I have my address book broken down into sub-folders for family,
>> friends, work, etc.
>>
>> I've imported all my contacts from my XP address book and separated the
>> contacts into the various folders just as in XP..
>> When I bring up the contacts through Windows Mail, everything looks
>> proper.
>> When I try to forward a message, and click the "to" button, It gives me
>> the entire listing of my contacts folder without regard to the folders
>> I've created. I see no option so see the contacts in sub-folders.
>>
>> Is this by design, or am I missing something?
>>
>>
>

This is my second day with my new Vista OS and this is one of the first quirks I have found. I too made sub-folders, but when forwarding an e-mail, I get the entire list of people. My only option for the moment was to place the other two folders I created onto my desk top so at least I don't lose them. Now when I use forward, I only get the list of people I really want to select from. This is nuts, or I missing something too.

Ward C

How did you import your address book? I've copied my "wab" file to an
external hard drive, but when I tryto import it via Windows Mail, it simply
doesn't recognise the file on my external hard drive?

Similar problem with importing messages from Outlook - used file transfer as
per XP Help, "dat" file created doesn't seem to be recognised when I try to
import.

"Ward C" wrote:

>
> Ron Radliff;53540 Wrote:
> > In XP, I have my address book broken down into sub-folders for family,
> > friends, work, etc.
> >
> > I've imported all my contacts from my XP address book and separated the
> > contacts into the various folders just as in XP..
> > When I bring up the contacts through Windows Mail, everything looks
> > proper.
> > When I try to forward a message, and click the "to" button, It gives me
> > the
> > entire listing of my contacts folder without regard to the folders I've
> > created. I see no option so see the contacts in sub-folders.
> >
> > Is this by design, or am I missing something?
>
> This is my second day with my new Vista OS and this is one of the first
> quirks I have found. I too made sub-folders, but when forwarding an
> e-mail, I get the entire list of people. My only option for the moment
> was to place the other two folders I created onto my desk top so at
> least I don't lose them. Now when I use forward, I only get the list of
> people I really want to select from. This is nuts, or I missing
> something too.
>
> Ward C
>
>
> --
> Ward C
>