Re: Outlook Contacts, Export a Category of contacts

Well, Excuuuze me!

Milly, on your 2nd message, I read to drag and drop my selection to the new
contacts folder (by usual methods?), then right-click [some item?] and select
from choices.

And by left-click dragging, I could never get to the step of 'Copy - Move -
Cancel'.

Now, a Rt-Click drag is a new animal to me, so I was certainly slow to
recognize what you were implying. But you have banged me on the head,
awakened me to the next century!

And now, I'm trying it. And after I Rt-Click drag selected records to a
sub-folder or to a new lateral (same-level) folder, with or without the Ctrl
key, I see 5 options:
1-Address New Message,
2-Copy Here with Message as Text,
3-Copy Here with Message as Shortcut,
4-Copy Here with Message as Attachment, 4-Move Here with Message as
Attachment,
5-Cancel.

None of those options seem what we want.

So,
1. Does it Matter if we use Ctrl key w/ Right-Drag?
2. What am I doing wrong now?

Thank you again (and again).
--
Knowledge Spunge (knead spill-checker & SinTax checker)


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Um, did you read the admonition to **************RIGHT**************** CLICK
and drag???????

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, GeneM office asked:

| I beg to disagree, Dear Lady Milly, believe I did do what you
| indicated, but let's review in detail:
|
| MS Ofc Outlook (R) 2003 (11.8010.8028) SP2
| Part of MS Ofc Small Business Edition 2003
|
| I switch OL to the Contacts tab-page.
| click Categories view.
| hit Ctrl-6 for Folders View.
| do Alt-V,X,L to collapse groups.
|
| Tried several ways next:
| Click-Select the Customers Category header; tried both
| Left-Button-Drag & Ctrl-Left-Button-Drag, but both attempts give me
| the same "Create a new item .. could take some time" warning, which
| last time hung us for 3-4 minutes and composed a new email message,
| which I cancelled, then no prompt as you had expected.
|
| If I select the 634 records, without any header, then drag, I get the
| same result, a Create prompt.
|
| Neither approach ever produces the "Copy - Move - Cancel" option you
| forecast.
|
| And at any rate, would I not want to Control-Drag in order to Copy
| records, not Move them.
|
| Scratch, Scratch ...
|
| What do you think?
|
|
|| 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]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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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.
||||
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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
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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?
|||||
|||||
|||||| 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.
||||||
|||||| 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.
|||||||
||||||| A mass export of Contacts to Excel does not even show the
||||||| Categories to which the contacts belong.



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