Re: Outlook Contacts, Export a Category of contacts

Did you right click after selecting the category and dragging it to the new
folder? You should get the choice of Copy - Move - Cancel. If you don't
see these choices, you have done something other than what I indicated.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, GeneM office asked:

| 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 ...
|
|
|| 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.
||
|| --Â?
|| 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:
||
||| 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."
|||
||| Elaborate, Please?
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|||| Copy the category of contacts to a sub-folder you create and export
|||| that.
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|||| --Ã?Â?
|||| 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.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, GeneM office asked:
||||
||||| 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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