Vista - Limiting individual contacts

My contacts are organized into various folders. When I want to send mail to
multiple addresses, I hit the TO: button to bring up the Contact List, but
every individual contact is listed from every individual folder. Is there a
way that individual contacts form one specific folder can be listed?

In OE Express, there was a separate box to choose what folder to view.

Try right clicking in the window and go to Group by and then you can
probably segregate them then.

steve

"whittiem" <whittiem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My contacts are organized into various folders. When I want to send mail
> to
> multiple addresses, I hit the TO: button to bring up the Contact List, but
> every individual contact is listed from every individual folder. Is there
> a
> way that individual contacts form one specific folder can be listed?
>
> In OE Express, there was a separate box to choose what folder to view.

No, you cannot.

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> Try right clicking in the window and go to Group by and then you can
> probably segregate them then.
>
> steve
>
> "whittiem" <whittiem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ACF88560-A097-400B-BAE1-F1121F830F9E@microsoft.com...
> > My contacts are organized into various folders. When I want to send mail
> > to
> > multiple addresses, I hit the TO: button to bring up the Contact List, but
> > every individual contact is listed from every individual folder. Is there
> > a
> > way that individual contacts form one specific folder can be listed?
> >
> > In OE Express, there was a separate box to choose what folder to view.
>

The addresses that I do not what to show, I checked the hidden box in each of
the contact's properties. Now they do not show, But they are still there if
I need them


"RonWPB" wrote:

> No, you cannot.
>
> "Steve Cochran" wrote:
>
> > Try right clicking in the window and go to Group by and then you can
> > probably segregate them then.
> >
> > steve
> >
> > "whittiem" <whittiem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:ACF88560-A097-400B-BAE1-F1121F830F9E@microsoft.com...
> > > My contacts are organized into various folders. When I want to send mail
> > > to
> > > multiple addresses, I hit the TO: button to bring up the Contact List, but
> > > every individual contact is listed from every individual folder. Is there
> > > a
> > > way that individual contacts form one specific folder can be listed?
> > >
> > > In OE Express, there was a separate box to choose what folder to view.
> >

Thank you, that worked. I get a few newsletters from magazines. I created a
folder named Mags and dragged the news letters senders into the Mags folder.
Then on each sender in Mags folder I did what you said and marked each one's
properties to hidden. They do not now show up when I click To when composing
a new email. The Group / Folder Mags shows up, but not each contact that is
in that folder.

"whittiem" wrote:

> The addresses that I do not what to show, I checked the hidden box in each of
> the contact's properties. Now they do not show, But they are still there if
> I need them
>
>
> "RonWPB" wrote:
>
> > No, you cannot.
> >
> > "Steve Cochran" wrote:
> >
> > > Try right clicking in the window and go to Group by and then you can
> > > probably segregate them then.
> > >
> > > steve
> > >
> > > "whittiem" <whittiem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:ACF88560-A097-400B-BAE1-F1121F830F9E@microsoft.com...
> > > > My contacts are organized into various folders. When I want to send mail
> > > > to
> > > > multiple addresses, I hit the TO: button to bring up the Contact List, but
> > > > every individual contact is listed from every individual folder. Is there
> > > > a
> > > > way that individual contacts form one specific folder can be listed?
> > > >
> > > > In OE Express, there was a separate box to choose what folder to view.
> > >

I tired this too
BUT now I cannot find or bring back my 'hidden' properties contacts
How do I find them again?

There MUST be a simple and common sense way to view/choose/see ONLY specific
contact folders
when sending an email address???
That would be very dumb and useless to not have a way to do this
If you can make seperate and specific folders - there must be a way to view
them when you hit TO:
otherwise what is the use of creating all these seperate folders?
Having them all come up is useless and wrong
I miss Outlook - isn't Visat suppose to be smarter - more user friendly - so
far NOT

"whittiem" wrote:

If you miss Outlook, why not install it on your Vista PC?
Outlook 2003 and later work fine on Vista.
Perhaps you meant Outlook Express, a completely different program.

Windows Mail Contacts uses Groups rather than Folders.
There is a tutorial for how to use groups:
Contact Groups in Windows Mail

The Groups feature in Windows Live Mail Contacts is more flexible.
Give it a try: http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)

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