Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook?

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    - My contacts do not appear in my address book I just switched computers. I was using Outlook 2007 on my previous Windows XP computer. Now i am using Outlook 2007 on a Windows vista system. I successfully transferred my emails and contacts to the new computer. I can see my contacts when i select contacts in the navigation pane on the right of the screen in outlook. However, i cannot search my contacts in two contexts. First, when i type a name in the "search address books" bar on the top of the screen. Nor can i search my contacts when i push the "to" button in a new mail message. I tried going to account settings > Address books and add or change an address books. Nothing seems to work. I would prefer not to set up a new windows profile if that can be avoided. Any suggestions? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123544
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    - using contacts folder as address book i just switched to vista and imported all of my contacts from the previous version of outlook. now, when i draft a new email and click the "To" button in order to insert contacts to send the email to, i get the "select names" box but it does not have my contacts folder as an address book. how do i import my contacts folder so that i can use them? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123538
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    - Limit of DL size in Contacts is there a limit of members of DL in Outlook contacts? We are using Outlook 2003. I thought there is a page space restriction. How about Outlook 2007? With limit how to check the free/used space? I think Contacts will use mailbox size and there is no limit itself. The limit if any will be based on mailbox limit, right? Thanks. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123535
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    - Contacts view Everytime I go to my contacts the business cards are at 60% and I can't see a thing, so I have to open the contact and hen close it. I have tried doing the change settings but it always goes back to 60%. Is there a way of making it stay at 100% and to show the font I have chosen? Thanks. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123528
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    - Contact Groups Hi all - I am using Vista and Outlook 2007. I am trying to organize my contacts by creating Contact Groups and moving individual contacts into their appropriate group. 1. I select 'Contacts' in the Navigation Pane by clicking on it 2. I click on 'Add New Group' and get a Group Bar (?) titled 'New Group' with that name highlighted 3. I rename that group to 'Family' and press enter 4. At this point: a. I cannot open the group to add contacts b. I cannot drag an existing contact into the group c. I cannot do anything at all with this group except for those actions offered in it's context menu; ie, I can Rename it, Remove it, Move it Up, Move it Down, etc. I just can't get any contacts into it. Can anyone suggest where I am going wrong? Thanks -- Andrew Aitchison (amhsn@nospam.sympatico.ca) Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123519
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    - Calendar view Everytime I go to my contacts the business cards are at 60% and I can't see a thing, so I have to open the contact and hen close it. I have tried doing the change settings but it always goes back to 60%. Is there a way of making it stay at 100% and to show the font I have chosen? Thanks. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123517
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    - Export Distribution List: Full Contact Info Won't Export I have a thousand names in Contact List. I have several hundred in a distribution list created from Contact list. I want to export the Distribution List info to Excel. I tried saving as .txt, but only the name and email address is saved in the text file. If I click on a name in the distribution list, I get the full contact info -- but it won't export. Is there any way to export full info from a distribution list? Or is the only resort to go into contact list and pick out one at a time? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123516
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    - direct dial from outlook contact Hi together, hope to find some experts in the forum. I use outlook contact and would like to make direct dial from outlook contact to my home telephone. I mean e.g I select one contact, click from outlook contact the phone number, it rings, and then I take as usual the phone machine in the hand to speak. What options there are for this: - connect the telephone to the internet box (in this case, special phone machine?) - free software to download - via Skype or jaja? then how? thanks a lot for your help in advance -- stephane70 Managing Director www.classics-vision.com free classic cars marketplace Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123515
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    - how do I synchronize Outlook contacts and Motorola phone tool I have Motorola Phone Tools versioon 4.0 which works well with my Motorola V3 phone. However I cannot get contacts to synchronise my phone contacts from MS Outlook 2007. Phone Tools should place a synch button on the Outlok tool bar but this did not happen. Is the sychronising possible with Outlook 2007? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123504
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    - Calling a specific Contact from command line parameter In a VBA application, using the command line parameter of: OUTLOOK.EXE /select Outlook:contacts How can I get it to open to a specific contact within my contact list? Thanks Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123503
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    - Public Folder Contacts Hi, I was wondering if anyone has a way of progrmically removing public folder address books that are no longer there. To explain the situation I have been using a script for some time to put the public folders from exchange 2003 and add them as address books within outlook. I have had to take these modify them and then put them back into the public folders. ( I created a PST modified then copied them back). The problem with this is that there are duplicate names when I use these folders. I want to know if there is a way to modify or create a new script to do this. If you could point me in the right direction it would be hugely helpful. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123501
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    - Presence Unknown Status in Outlook 2007 We're in a mixed Office 2003 (/05 in some apps) and Office 2007 enterprise environment. We all have MS Communicator 2005. Personally I have Office 2007 on Vista but 95% of the company is still on XP with either 2003/05 or 2007. The correct status (online, busy, offline, etc.) shows up on Communicator, but not in Outlook. In outlook the status is grayed out for Office 2007 users but the users with older builds have their status displayed accurately. I can't find ANY info on this problem in the Knowledge Base. Any ideas out there?? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123500
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    - Updating Contact Information Does anyone know of a way to automatically synchronize or update Outlook 2007 contact information from information periodically posted by the contact? It seems that Windows Live Messenger has ways to update contact information based on updates made by the contact themselves to their own information. Is there a way that Outlook 2007 can access Windows Messenger contact information to automatically update the Outlook 2007 contact information? Are there other ways to request updates from the contact (vCards, contact files, etc) in order to synchronize or update your existing contacts? Our problem is that contact information is so dynamic that you really need an automated way to update your contact information based on changes actually made by the contact to their own information. Thanks for any help in resolving this issue. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123494
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    - Contacts not showing up Its seems there is somthing going on with my .NK2 file. When I email a contact initial he doesn;t appear then I go to my contact list add him to the To: field and compose and e-mail my message. The next day I start tyoping his name and his name doesn;t appear. can anyone shed some light on this? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123485
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    - Copy Outlook address book to a second computer on network? I have 2 computers on my home network. I want to transfer my Outlook account (along with address book and personal files) from computer 1 to computer 2. Then I will only use Outlook on computer 2. Anyone know how to do this? (I already have the Outlook application installed on computer 2, and I have copied over my .pst files.) Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123476
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    - How do I import Contacts from Outlook 2003 into Outlook 2002? I've saved my work contacts from Outlook 2003 in a .pst file and need to import them into Outlook 2002 at home. The pop up says the file is not compatible with this version of the Personal Folders information service. Contact Administrator. The company I was with went out of business and there is no Admin to contact. Any suggestions? Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123469
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    - Contact Window When I open a contact, I am not able to see the entire contact. The window cuts off about 1/3 of the contact. I can't find a scroll bar and Maximize doesn't help. Thx. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123468
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    - Cheating the Contacts distribution list? Currently using Outlook and Exchange 2007. As best practice when creating Contact based distribution lists you should try to keep less than 100 if you keep the contact's that were added detail to absolute minimum. So of course one of our High level execs wants to create a DL in his contacts with 800 SMTP addresses. So we created 8 separate DL groups with 100 persons in each group. Now, to cheat the normal error when more are added to a DL, can I create a single combined DL where each of those other 8 distribution lists are added within? We want to make this so he just has to send to one group but of course once sent it goes to all those subgroups. Does this work or will it also give an error regarding DL size, etc? Thanks!! Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123458
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    - I need to move contact from Outlook 2003 to Outlook XP Help? I just got a new laptop with Windows Vista. I also got Microsoft Office XP for it and I am trying to move my contacts from the old desktop to the lap top. How is the best way to do it. I tried to back them up to a .pst file and it told me I could not open it as it was an incorrect version. Thanks for your help. Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123456
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    - Any better way to add a shared contact folder to address list I have seen previous posts regarding a shared contact list has been added to an Outlook profile but can't seem to be placed in the Outlook Address book. Was mentioned about opening the other users mailbox and then keeping that mailbox open in the other profile. Is there no cleaner way to simply add that shared contact folder into the address book? The user that has been given rights to the contacts has also been set as an Owner on the shared Contacts folder but to give rights to the mailbox itself and then also leave that in the active profile just seems really bad. So, any new clean way to add someone else's shared contact list into the other persons Outlook 2007 address book? Also, this was a sub folder of the first persons contact folder called "Students". So "Students" was shared and we want that to also be seen as an address book on the other person's Outlook. Thanks!! Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123454
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    - Outlook Connector Contacts & Distribution List issues I use an MSN e-mail account with Outlook Connector for OUtlook 2007 and I've had an issue for quite a while that I can't seem to tolerate much longer. To start, I have all my family members on a distribution list set up (as Family Reunion) and lately I've added three new people to my contacts list, but when I try to add them to the Distribution list, I'm told that the distribution list contains contacts that haven't yet been synchronized, press F9 to synchronize your contacts, then save you list. Thing is, hitting F9 does the send/receive thing, but I still can't save the changes to the list. Then to top it all off, when I open up a web browser & sign into MSN, pull up my contacts, they're all there, including the three new ones I can't add to my distribution list, but my distribution list (Family Reunion) just isn't there. How do I get this to act right. I want to add my three new cousins to my list & I would really like for my distribution list to show up in MSN, though that's only secondary really, seeing how I'm using Outlook as my e-mail program. Please, someone, help me! :( Tag: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? Tag: 123448
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I have 2 seperate distribution lists and am wanting to merge the contacts
contained in them into one distribution list, is this possible?

Re: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? by Oliver

Oliver
Thu Mar 27 03:24:13 PDT 2008

Hi Kylie,

I do not think that it is possible to merge "distribution lists" (DL), I
only know this article about:

"Outlook--Merging Contacts Without Duplication"
http://windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=22155

I prefer to create a new DL with merged contact folders.

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Oliver Vukovics
Share your Outlook PST files without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Extended reminder function for Outlook / Exchange: Public Reminder Addin
http://www.publicshareware.com

"Kylie" <Kylie@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:61BD39F6-E97E-4E51-94DB-605932610799@microsoft.com...
>I have 2 seperate distribution lists and am wanting to merge the contacts
> contained in them into one distribution list, is this possible?

Re: Is there a way to merge 2 distibution lists in Outlook? by Brian

Brian
Thu Mar 27 07:29:33 PDT 2008

Kylie <Kylie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have 2 seperate distribution lists and am wanting to merge the
> contacts contained in them into one distribution list, is this
> possible?

Make a new DL and make the original DLs members. Simple.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]