Instead of using the above procedure to create a Contact group for selected contacts, you can also use the AddContactstoDL macro from the guide below.Īside from create new Contacts Groups, it also allows you to add your current Contact selection to an already existing Contact Group with the press of a single button.
Place your cursor in the Members field and paste your selection (CTRL+V).Īddresses from the To line of an email can be copied and pasted into the Members field of a Contacts Group to quickly add them. In Outlook 2007 this button is called: Select Members. Choose: Add Members-> From Outlook Contacts. 
Create a new Contact Group (CTRL+SHIFT+L). Close the message without saving changes so that you are returned to the Contacts folder in Outlook. Select all the addresses in the To field of the newly created message (CTRL+A). Create a new message to your Contacts Category as described in the “Group By Category and Send Email” section above. It’s not possible to create such a group for a Category in one go and although the process might not be intuitive, it is still easy to perform and only takes a few seconds once you know the trick. Create a Contact Group for a CategoryĪs mentioned before, the above method only works for new emails and having an actual Contact Group in your Address Book might be more convenient, especially when you want to Forward a message. You can for instance also apply this to individually selected contacts, Company groups and even. Note: You can create a new email to any selection of contacts this way, not just selected Category groups. Select the Group Header of your Category and press the “New Message to Contact” button on the Toolbar or choose: Actions-> Create-> New Message to Contact. To achieve the same in Outlook 2007 or previous use: You can now select the Group Header of your Category (or all the contacts of that Category) and press the Email button in the Communicate group in the Home tab of the Ribbon to create a new email address to all the contacts within the Category.īy setting your Contacts View to the List view and its Arrangement to Categories, you can easily select all Contacts belonging to the same Category. tab: View-> option group: Arrangement-> Categories. Grouping your Contacts by Categories can be in the following way: Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 The easiest method to a send an email to all contacts belonging to the same Category is via the Contacts folders itself by using a List view and grouping your contacts by Category. Some of these methods don’t even require you to to create a group first but they only work when you want to send them a new email and not a Reply or Forward.įortunately, with some creative use of some other Outlook features, you can also create a Contact Group for Contacts belonging to the same Category is a few simple clicks. 
There are various ways to send an email to a group of Contacts belonging to the same Category. Is there an easy way to create a Contact Group for a certain Category aside from adding all the contacts of that Category one-by-one? To overcome this limitation, I thought about creating a Contact Group for this Category but then I run into the same limitation when adding members to this group. Note: If that’s a new created contact group, you need to type a name in the Name box before saving it.I want to send an email to all the contacts belonging to a certain Category but unfortunately, I can’t seem to sort or filter my Address Book by Category when addressing an email. Click the Save & Close button to save it. Then the contacts are bulk added to the contact group. Or click the first contact, hold the Shift key and click the last contact if the contacts are continuous in the contacts folder Ĥ. Hold the Ctrl key to select the contacts one by one if the contacts are discontinuous. Select the contact folder which the contacts exist in the Address Book drop-down box Ģ). In the Select Members dialog box, you need to:ġ). In the Distribution List window in Outlook 2007, click Select Members under Distribution List tab.ģ. In the Contact Group window, click Add Members > From Outlook Contacts under Contact Group tab. Note: If you want to bulk add contacts to an existing contact group, please double click to open it.Ģ. In Outlook 2007, click the drop-down icon in the New button, and select Distribution List in the drop-down menu. Shift to the Contacts or People view and create a new contact group by clicking New Contact Group under Home tab in Outlook 20. Please do as follows to bulk add contacts to contact group in Outlook.ġ. Bulk add contacts to contact group in Outlook
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