I never heard of "Distribution List", I work from home so have no helpful
colleagues, and I never Merged. I have individual Contact records, and some
of them fall into Categories (named in Category box on each record). When I
send an email to everyone in that category, I open Outlook in Category mode
(a list in the form of a table), highlight the names, copy them, and paste
them into the "to" (or BCC) of the email message before writing and sending.
WHAT I WANT TO DO is to extract the list of names so I can paste it into a
Word document and then work on it, move it around, send different versions of
it as attachments, etc. I've tried copying columns or sections but you can't
highlight them. The only thing that works is to doubleclick on each name, one
at a time, which opens each individual contact record, then copy the name,
paste it into the Word doc, close the record, open the next one, and so on.
At 4am, exhausted, I realised this would take all night. So I went to bed and
fretted till morning. Does anyone run residential summer schools devoted to
helping people with these things?



"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Open a Distribution List the same way you open any other Contact Record.
You have not made clear what you want to do. If you have created a category
already, you would have no need for a Distribution List.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jo Foster" wrote in message
...
what does "open the DL" mean?
I want to copy all from one category

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Carolina wrote:

I need to copy and paste all my distribution lists at one time. I
don't want to have to copy each email address one at a time - ugh!. I
am actually trying to import my distribution lists and export them to
a service called Constant Contact that does email marketing. Someone
please help! I am very frustrated.

Open the DL and click FileSave As. I usually save them as a
tab-delimited
values text file.
--
Brian Tillman