Re: Importing categorized contacts into a DL

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You can't make a DL using categories - you need to add the members of the categories to the DL. Since everyone is in your contacts and will resolves, create a by category view that has only the full name field (or name and email address, if you want). Copy the category and paste into the member field.

See http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/copy_data.htm for the basics.

FWIW, my storm didn't see my contact DL (my test DL is called Me and the BB sent the test message to meeting room 2) - it does work on Exchange DL (in GAL) when I type the full name. The BB won't resolve it so you can't check names and its not in the contacts list on the BB to select.

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"Ed" <Ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4AC3E31A-CE8F-4890-9796-B73C968EBFFD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My Outlook 2003 contacts number well over 2000. I use categories instead of
DLs for mailings and other tasks.

I recently was given a BlackBerry Storm at work which connects to Outlook
via an Exchange Server.

My problem is that i'm on the road alot and need to send emails to lists of
contacts. The Storm, or Exchange Server, won't let me access by category for
mailings so I'm trying to figure out a workaround. The only thing I can think
of is creating DLs that I'd populate with the most frequently used
categories.

I'm trying to figure out some way of importing categorized address cards
into a new DL without clicking one by one through 2,000 contacts. As I
understand it, the BlackBerry will see the distribution list.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ed

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