I have some 7 contacts in my Distribution List A. Can I open the Distribution List, add two more contacts, remove 3 existing and save the distribution list as B which way distribution list A will not be affected.

Can someone please clarify if this is possible? If so, how can it be done?

Thanks

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I am using MS Outlook 2007. I forgot to mention that in previous post.



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I have some 7 contacts in my Distribution List A. Can I open the Distribution List, add two more contacts, remove 3 existing and save the distribution list as B which way distribution list A will not be affected.

Can someone please clarify if this is possible? If so, how can it be done?

Thanks

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"Charles H" wrote in message ...
I have some 7 contacts in my Distribution List A. Can I open the
Distribution List, add two more contacts, remove 3 existing and save the
distribution list as B which way distribution list A will not be affected.

Can someone please clarify if this is possible? If so, how can it be done?

Thanks


This is why using Categories instead of Distribution Lists is SO much
better.....

Why wouldn't you just create a copy of the DL, amend it as desired, rename
it, and save it?
--
Russ Valentine
"Charles H" wrote in message ...
I have some 7 contacts in my Distribution List A. Can I open the
Distribution List, add two more contacts, remove 3 existing and save the
distribution list as B which way distribution list A will not be affected.

Can someone please clarify if this is possible? If so, how can it be done?

Thanks

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First, sorry for the cross post. I did not know different forums for
Outlook would publish my questions to the same newsgroup.

On Oct 15, 3:51*pm, "Russ Valentine" wrote:
Why wouldn't you just create a copy of the DL, amend it as desired, rename
it, and save it?

I could, but it is for an office where I am working where people do
not want to. They think just as
you can open a Word Document "A", change it and save it as "B" word
document in which we
get a new word document "B" and "A" is untouched. We can do similar
things in
Outlook contact list also.

Thanks

Charles H wrote in message ...

I have some 7 contacts in my Distribution List A. Can I open the Distribution
List, add two more contacts, remove 3 existing and save the distribution list
as B which way distribution list A will not be affected.

Can someone please clarify if this is possible? If so, how can it be done?

While viewing your Contacts folder, right-click and drag DL A. Release the
mouse button and choose Copy. Open trhe copy, giving it the name B and making
the membership changes you like.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"s" wrote in message
...

I could, but it is for an office where I am working where people do
not want to.

Too bad. That's the only way. It's not a document. It doesn't behave like a
document.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Not sure why you asked the question if you already knew there were other
requirements you had not specified. If it is necessary to use Outlook in a
way it was not designed then you either need educate your users or find some
other product that might fit their idiosyncrasies. Good luck with that.
--
Russ Valentine
"s" wrote in message
...
First, sorry for the cross post. I did not know different forums for
Outlook would publish my questions to the same newsgroup.

On Oct 15, 3:51 pm, "Russ Valentine" wrote:
Why wouldn't you just create a copy of the DL, amend it as desired, rename
it, and save it?

I could, but it is for an office where I am working where people do
not want to. They think just as
you can open a Word Document "A", change it and save it as "B" word
document in which we
get a new word document "B" and "A" is untouched. We can do similar
things in
Outlook contact list also.

Thanks

On Oct 15, 4:56*pm, "Russ Valentine" wrote:
Not sure why you asked the question if you already knew there were other
requirements you had not specified. If it is necessary to use Outlook in a
way it was not designed then you either need educate your users or find some
other product that might fit their idiosyncrasies. Good luck with that.

Thanks for the reply.

I asked the question as I thought there might be a way
to do that in Outlook which I did not know. But, you are correct, I
should have
mentioned all the requirements in the first question. The office
thinks there might
be a way to do it programmatically using some VBA coding and I am
inept as I
don't know how to do that.

But, as you suggest if there is no way, I can now tell them
confidently, it can't be
done. I did not want to tell them that, until I was certain of that.

Thanks again.

Well you could ask in a programming group, but I'm betting programmers (like
most users) avoid using DL's like the plague.
--
Russ Valentine
"s" wrote in message
...
On Oct 15, 4:56 pm, "Russ Valentine" wrote:
Not sure why you asked the question if you already knew there were other
requirements you had not specified. If it is necessary to use Outlook in a
way it was not designed then you either need educate your users or find
some
other product that might fit their idiosyncrasies. Good luck with that.

Thanks for the reply.

I asked the question as I thought there might be a way
to do that in Outlook which I did not know. But, you are correct, I
should have
mentioned all the requirements in the first question. The office
thinks there might
be a way to do it programmatically using some VBA coding and I am
inept as I
don't know how to do that.

But, as you suggest if there is no way, I can now tell them
confidently, it can't be
done. I did not want to tell them that, until I was certain of that.

Thanks again.