Re: Outlook Contacts, Export a Category of contacts

Thanks. I have only been using Outlook (MS Ofc 2003) a few months, after
hanging onto Sidekick 97 until I would not trust the old Win 98 PC.

Implicit in your instructions might be that I know how to switch to Folder
View, which I only noticed yesterday!

So now, I have clicked the Category (of 634 Customers), Ctrl-Drag-ed it to
the new sub-folder, affirmed Prompt (Create a new item from the Selected
Items could take some time. Are your sure you want to create a New Item from
these 634 Items?, it said), and after 3-4 minutes, I am waiting for Outlook
to recover, give me a non-blank screen. OK, now it is back. It showed me a
new e-mail addressed to all 634 contacts! Cancelled, selected the Category
_members_ (rather than the Category header), tried Ctrl-Drag, got same
prompt, cancelled. Or, Rt-click on group does not offer Copy, only offers
Open, Print, Forward, Categories, Mark, Delete, & Move-to-Folder (which
offers no Copy option).

So I am still stuck ...

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Knowledge Spunge (knead spill-checker)


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Create a new contacts folder and name it appropriately. Display your
default contacts folder in a by category view. Select all of the contacts
in your preferred category, then drag and drop to the new contacts folder.
Use the right mouse button to select and you will get choices when you
release the button.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, GeneM office asked:

| Milly, that sounds like a workable approach, so thanks!
|
| However, I cannot find, in Help or Menu tree, a method to copy a
| category of contacts to a sub-folder."
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| Elaborate, Please?
|
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|| Copy the category of contacts to a sub-folder you create and export
|| that.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
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|| After furious head scratching, GeneM office asked:
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||| In Outlook, I wish to Export a Category of contacts. These contacts
||| all share a folder with many other contacts, and they are not
||| distinguishable by any particular Distribution list.
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||| A mass export of Contacts to Excel does not even show the Categories
||| to which the contacts belong.



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