I have followed the instruction in the Outlook help file to "creat a
distribution list from a received email" but when I paste the email
recipients in the "add to distribution list" area of the "Select Members"
window and click "OK" I get a message "Microsoft outlook does not
recognize"..... the names I have just pasted.

This window seems to be trying to suggest names and offers some lookup
functions but does not give a clue of what I need to do to complete the
distribution list. I am begining to believe that Outlook does not let you
make a distribution list from a recieved email even though the help file says
you can. Can anybody help?

I just tried the steps in Help and they don't work for me either.

Here's how I would do it:

right click each name in the email (open the email to get to the) and then
Add to Contacts.

Once you have them in as Contacts, you can make the DL easily.

"enviro-lean" wrote in message
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I have followed the instruction in the Outlook help file to "creat a
distribution list from a received email" but when I paste the email
recipients in the "add to distribution list" area of the "Select Members"
window and click "OK" I get a message "Microsoft outlook does not
recognize"..... the names I have just pasted.

This window seems to be trying to suggest names and offers some lookup
functions but does not give a clue of what I need to do to complete the
distribution list. I am begining to believe that Outlook does not let you
make a distribution list from a recieved email even though the help file
says
you can. Can anybody help?

enviro-lean wrote:

I have followed the instruction in the Outlook help file to "creat a
distribution list from a received email" but when I paste the email
recipients in the "add to distribution list" area of the "Select
Members" window and click "OK" I get a message "Microsoft outlook
does not recognize"..... the names I have just pasted.

If the names are all together and separated by semicolons (commas may work,
but I didn't try them), the you'll be able to copy the list and paste it
into the Members field and have the wizard add them to the DL all at once.
--
Brian Tillman

Not true. This method may work for you but it does not work when I try it
even if the email names are all together and separated by semicolons.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

enviro-lean wrote:

I have followed the instruction in the Outlook help file to "creat a
distribution list from a received email" but when I paste the email
recipients in the "add to distribution list" area of the "Select
Members" window and click "OK" I get a message "Microsoft outlook
does not recognize"..... the names I have just pasted.

If the names are all together and separated by semicolons (commas may work,
but I didn't try them), the you'll be able to copy the list and paste it
into the Members field and have the wizard add them to the DL all at once.
--
Brian Tillman

enviro-lean wrote:

Not true. This method may work for you

It does work for me and that, by definition, makes it true. If it were not
true it would work for no one.
--
Brian Tillman

Brian:

I am glad that the distribution list from email method described in the
outlook help file works for you but it does not work for either Judy or I.
Do you have any idea why it works for some and not for others. Also, how
would I approach this problem to get beyond where we are now?...i.e..what
other resources are there when this forum can not solve a legitimate issue?

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

enviro-lean wrote:

Not true. This method may work for you

It does work for me and that, by definition, makes it true. If it were not
true it would work for no one.
--
Brian Tillman

it worked when I tried it from a sent email (all names in the To field) but
not from a cc'd received email. Haven't had time to check the differences.
It's morning tea break in a course I am running!
"enviro-lean" wrote in message
...
Brian:

I am glad that the distribution list from email method described in the
outlook help file works for you but it does not work for either Judy or I.
Do you have any idea why it works for some and not for others. Also, how
would I approach this problem to get beyond where we are now?...i.e..what
other resources are there when this forum can not solve a legitimate
issue?

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

enviro-lean wrote:

Not true. This method may work for you

It does work for me and that, by definition, makes it true. If it were
not
true it would work for no one.
--
Brian Tillman

enviro-lean wrote:

I am glad that the distribution list from email method described in
the outlook help file works for you but it does not work for either
Judy or I.

I never said the method in the Help works. I've never read that part of the
help.
What I said was if I have a character string composed of mail addresses
separated by semi-colons (in a text file, for example) and I select that
character string and copy it to the clipboard, when I open a DL and click
Select Members, I can paste this string in the Members field, click OK and
thet all get added to the DL. If that matches what the help said, great.
If it doesn't, it's irrelevant because I wasn't claiming it did.
--
Brian Tillman