Mail, Contact, Groups
Posted by admin on Nov 6th, 2006
In XP, my Groups were shown separately at the top of my Address Book in BOLD font. In Windows Mail, the Groups are listed just like any other name. Is there any way to modify the way Groups are displayed?Tia,Tom
Nov 9th, 2006 at 08:36 pm
For all you fellow losers out there that are running Vista Windows Mail and miss their Groups from Outlook or Outlook Express, I have a found a workaround after a week of trial and error. I hope Microsoft is listening when I say: This is an unforgivable error and a marketing blunder. My Outlook Express worked just fine. Why take it away from me and force me to use a new product that has horrific shortcomings in it? This has cost me days of my life to make it usable. PLEASE fix it right quickly! OK, I’m done venting. Now to the temporary workaround.1. Open Windows Explorer, go to C:\users\you\documents\Contacts 2. Make new sub folders for “friends”, “family”, “work”, etc. 3. Move or copy contacts into each of these sub folders from the main folder 4. For each folder (I’ll use family as an example): a. Open the folder b. Double click on the first contact listed to open it’s properties c. Go to the Home tab at the top of the screen d. Enter the word “family” in the street field e. Highlight “family” and hit ControlC to copy; click OK f. For each member of the Family Folder, repeat this process g. Use the ControlV to paste “family” and save typing 5. To use, open Windows Mail, create a new mail or forward an old one 6. Click the “TO” button; click “find” button; Look in = Windows Contacts 7. Put “family” in the address field; click the “find now” button 8. Select the desired emails (use your SHIFT and Control keys for shortcuts) 9. Click on the TO, CC or BCC buttons, click OK, and SEND 10. HINT: BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy. PLEASE use it for most of your forwards. It stops all the recipients from seeing all of the address of any of the other recipients.Hope this helps. Pat Cremin
Nov 14th, 2006 at 02:31 pm
I see them sorting with other names, but mine are shown in BOLD. They were created in Vista were yours imported or created? Good Luck,Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]"Tom Brown"
Nov 15th, 2006 at 01:09 pm
Most of mine were imported but I just created a Group and it was not BOLD.Tom "Keith Miller MVP"
Nov 16th, 2006 at 04:41 pm
To clarify, I'm talking about how groups are displayed in the 'Select Recipients' dialog that appears when you click 'To:' in a new email. In the Contacts folder itself, they are not displayed in Bold. Good Luck,Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]"Tom Brown"
Nov 19th, 2006 at 03:13 pm
Keith,Yes, I agree. In To: they are bold but in the Contact list, they are not. I wonder why they are different?I also "think" I remember (in XP) them being sorted at the beginning of the address list and not allphabetically. I like the old one better in that regard.I have also noticed that when I type someone's name in a new message, it does not seem to autocomplete until I tab out of the To: field.Also, if you see this sentence, this is the 4th version of this email because I went back into the Outbox and made changes. But, when I clicked Send, it put additonal copies instead of overwriting the original. Is that a new Vista "enhancement" or is it a bug? As I type this, I see three others in the outbox and I will delete them before I Send/Receive. What's going on?Tom"Keith Miller MVP"
Nov 23rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
I just noticed that the "duplicates" in the Outbox I mentioned in the last message only happens in the Newsgroup, not the regular folders.Tom "Tom Brown"
Nov 28th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Pat Cremin, you are a genie! You solved a difficault problem for me, to send one email to many people without having to look for them in my crowded contacts´ list. Vista recommends to hit a "New Contact Group" button on my toolbar. There is no such button. But now I can send all my "Mother´s Family" contacts (23) the same mail without much trouble. Thank you very much. Mar Vidar Masson, Reykjavik "Pat Cremin, CCS" wrote:
Dec 1st, 2006 at 03:22 pm
if you are missing the "NEW" buttons on the tool bar, right click in blank space in folder and select properties, then use drop down menu and select CONTACTS, apply and ok.mikeyhsd@comcast.net "Olafsdottir/Masson" Pat Cremin, you are a genie! You solved a difficault problem for me, to send one email to many people without having to look for them in my crowded contacts´ list. Vista recommends to hit a "New Contact Group" button on my toolbar. There is no such button. But now I can send all my "Mother´s Family" contacts (23) the same mail without much trouble. Thank you very much. Mar Vidar Masson, Reykjavik "Pat Cremin, CCS" wrote:
Dec 2nd, 2006 at 05:53 pm
Thank you Mikeyhsd. That helped. I wonder if many aren´t missing this feature! Mar Vidar Masson"mikeyhsd" wrote:
Dec 3rd, 2006 at 10:31 pm
seems vista suffers from senility in its young age and forgets the way folders are supposed to customized. just a soft knock on the heard and it remembers for a while.mikeyhsd@comcast.net "Olafsdottir/Masson" Thank you Mikeyhsd. That helped. I wonder if many aren´t missing this feature! Mar Vidar Masson "mikeyhsd" wrote: