Click on Check Names icon on the ribbon or press Ctrl + K to validate group's name.ģ. Enter the group's name into To, Cc, or Bcc field.Ģ. In order to see the members of a group or distribution list in Outlook, follow these steps:ġ. The first method works for both groups and distribution lists, while the second method works only for distribution lists. In fact, all the mail merge code needs dragging into the 21 st Century.There are two different ways to display the names of members of a group or mailing list in Outlook before sending an e-mail message addressed to that group or mailing list. Microsoft – another item for your Outlook To Do list. But you have to remember that each contact added/deletion in the Group also needs a Category change. Then filter the view to show only contacts with that Category. One workaround is to manually select the contact group members.Īnother workaround is to put all the Contact Group members into a Category or custom field. (we may be wrong, if you can figure it out, please let us know).Ī mail merge can be started from Outlook using manually selected contacts from a list. In other words, there’s no contact field that can show if a contact is a member of a specific Group. We can’t find a way to display Contact Group members in a View.
A mail merge can be started from a current Outlook contact view. That’s annoying since, presumably it would not be hard for Microsoft to get the Contact Group members then continue with the merge. It means you can TO, CC or BCC to a Contact Group but not use the same group directly in a mail merge from Outlook. A Contact Group (formerly distribution list) is a way to bring many contacts together under a single name (like Friends, Customers, Enemies etc). It’s something we’d never thought to check but Cindy is quite right. I got an error message stating “Contact groups cannot be merged. ‘ Outlook will not allow me to choose a Contact Group on which to perform a mail merge. Cindy M tells us about a curious oversight in Outlook …
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