The use of categories as group mailing lists should be a more prominent
option. The software's inherent design leads most users to use the clunky,
arduous, and frustrating Distribution List interface. So the underlying
question is: are Distribution Lists a relic from an earlier version of the
software? Why don't they allow drag and drop? The concept of a GUI is to
create an interface that converts pieces of data into 2-dimentional objects
that can be manipulated much like we manipulate real-world objects: I want to
put this thing into this container, so I pick it up and move it there. Given
the parent-child relationship between DLs and Contacts, implies that such
behavior should be possible. Even a menu command that allows adding a contact
to a DL or creating a DL from a list of selected, but otherwise unrelated,
contacts into a group for repeated use. Given the number of posts here and
elsehwere on the internet, it seems to me that the way Outlook deals with
contacts and groups of contacts--a pretty fundamental part of
collaboration--is pretty unintuitive. Entourage, Microsoft's Outlook
equivalent for the Macintosh, does a far better job at this and allows drag
and drop of contacts, groups (as text files), and messages to and from any
other application that accepts vcf, and mbox format files.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

There is a way to do this, but if you've created Categories already, there
is no real need to. Most of us use Categories instead of DL's because they
are more flexible and more reliable.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"ajnatto" wrote in message
...
right now i found it to be very hard to create a Distribution list where i
have to add it using Add method or typing in the e-mail i wish i can just
drag & drop my contats directly in any Distribution list.
Mostly what i would like is just to select a group header of my contacts &
drag it in a Distribution list this will make a Distribution list based on
Category & it would automaticly update it self.

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Good questions. We have no more clue to the answers than you do. We aren't
the developers. We just encounter the same frustrations you do and look for
alternatives.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Chris D." Chris wrote in message
...
The use of categories as group mailing lists should be a more prominent
option. The software's inherent design leads most users to use the clunky,
arduous, and frustrating Distribution List interface. So the underlying
question is: are Distribution Lists a relic from an earlier version of the
software? Why don't they allow drag and drop? The concept of a GUI is to
create an interface that converts pieces of data into 2-dimentional
objects
that can be manipulated much like we manipulate real-world objects: I want
to
put this thing into this container, so I pick it up and move it there.
Given
the parent-child relationship between DLs and Contacts, implies that such
behavior should be possible. Even a menu command that allows adding a
contact
to a DL or creating a DL from a list of selected, but otherwise unrelated,
contacts into a group for repeated use. Given the number of posts here and
elsehwere on the internet, it seems to me that the way Outlook deals with
contacts and groups of contacts--a pretty fundamental part of
collaboration--is pretty unintuitive. Entourage, Microsoft's Outlook
equivalent for the Macintosh, does a far better job at this and allows
drag
and drop of contacts, groups (as text files), and messages to and from any
other application that accepts vcf, and mbox format files.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

There is a way to do this, but if you've created Categories already,
there
is no real need to. Most of us use Categories instead of DL's because
they
are more flexible and more reliable.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"ajnatto" wrote in message
...
right now i found it to be very hard to create a Distribution list
where i
have to add it using Add method or typing in the e-mail i wish i can
just
drag & drop my contats directly in any Distribution list.
Mostly what i would like is just to select a group header of my
contacts &
drag it in a Distribution list this will make a Distribution list based
on
Category & it would automaticly update it self.

----------------
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...tlook.contacts