How to Import an Outlook Distribution List to an Outlook Express Group
Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express are e-mail and contact organizational applications. Users can manage their e-mails and contacts through a simple, yet fully customizable interface. One useful contact management utility is the Outlook Distribution List, which can combine many contacts into one collective contact, thereby streamlining the process of sending the same e-mail to multiple people. The Outlook Express Group is the equivalent utility for that application. Users switching between both programs can Import an Outlook Distribution List to Outlook Express as a group.
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Instructions
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Launch Microsoft Outlook.
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Click "Tools," then select "Email accounts."
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Choose to "Add a new directory or address book," then click the "Next" button.
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Select the "Additional Address Books" option, then click "Next".
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Choose "Personal Address Book" and click "Next." If you receive an error message at this point, then you have already created a Personal Address Book, so you can skip to step 9.
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Enter a name for your Personal Address Book.
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Select the "Last name" option under the "Show names by" option, then click "OK."
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Close the Microsoft Outlook application and restart it so that your changes can take effect.
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Click "Tools," then select the "Address Book" option.
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Select the "Tools" menu, then click "Options."
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Choose the Personal Address Book that you named in step 6, then click "OK."
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Select the "Contacts" option, which is located under the "Outlook Address Book" option.
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Choose your distribution list, then right click on it and select the "Add to Contacts" option.
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Launch Microsoft Outlook Express.
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Click "File" at the top of the screen, select "Import," then "Other Address Book."
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Choose the "Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book" option, then click the "Import" button.
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Click "OK" after the import process has completed.
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Tips & Warnings
You can import multiple distribution lists at once by pressing and holding "Shift" as you select multiple entries.
