Contact Groups
Create Contact Groups
Groups are also your personal mailing lists
About contact groups
You can use contact groups to organize your
contacts and as personal mailing lists—to send email messages or meeting invitations to groups of people you contact frequently, without having to enter each of their email addresses individually.
Create a contact groupYou
can create a contact group in your Contacts Manager. Or, when composing an email message or creating a meeting invitation, you can quickly create a new contact group using the contacts picker. To create a contact group using your Contacts Manager:
1. Open your Contacts Manager. (For details, see "Contacts Basics").
2. Click
the New Group button in the upper-left corner of the contacts manager.
3. Enter the name of the group.
5. Open My Contacts, and then select the contacts you want to add to the group. For example:
6. Open the Groups drop-down list at the top of the pane on the right. 7. Select the group to which you want to add the contacts.
To create a contact group using the contacts
picker: 1. Open the contacts picker by doing one of the following:
- If you are composing an email message, click the To: link.
- If you are creating a meeting invitation, under Add Guests, click Choose from contacts.
The contacts picker appears: 2. In the Search contacts box, start typing the name of a contact you want to add to the group. Then click the name to add it to the list below. Add more contacts, as needed. 3. When you are finished, click Save as Group. 4. Enter the name of the
group, and click OK. For example: 5. To add the group to your email message or meeting invitation, click Done. Use your groups as mailing lists
To save time when sending an email message or meeting invitation, use your
contact groups. To send a message or meeting invitation to all the members of a group:
Do one of the following: - If you are composing an email message, start typing the group's name in the To: field.
- If you are creating a meeting invitation, start typing the group's name in the Add Guests box.
To send a message or meeting invitation to selected members of a group: 1. Do one of the following: - If you are
composing an email message, click the To: link.
- If you are creating a meeting invitation, under Add Guests, click Choose from contacts.
2. Select the group in the drop-down list in the contacts
picker:
3. Select the contacts to whom you want to send the invitation. For example: Or, to send it to all contacts in the group,
click Select all.
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