I'm sure it must be frustrating to be working under time pressure using a
program with which you are unfamiliar. You've jumped into an old thread in
this newsgroup that may not even be relevant to your question. Read the
Subject. The thread was about Distribution Lists which you now admit you've
never heard of. Not sure why you would post in a thread on a topic you've
never heard of.
The problem is we have no idea what your question is. This is an end user
newsgroup. We can only answer questions when you post them clearly. You seem
to have some very basic questions that can be answered in Help files or in
the many tutorials that we reference here.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jo Foster" wrote in message
...
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.
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Brian Tillman