It is axiomatic that if your Outlook Address Book Service does not work you
cannot use it. I had no reason to suspect your Outlook Address Book Service
did not work. Fix it. We have countless posts here to tell you how to do so.
How you broke yours will determine which fix you use and you should never be
hesitant to create a new Outlook profile. Instructions abound:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...roduct=out2003
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"browniebodrum" wrote in message
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I see... But it seems in Outlook 200 there's a bug affecting this
operation
- Diane Poremsky says in a couple of posts: If you are using Outlook 2007
and
the the checkbox is grayed, you'll need to make a new profile as you can't
add the Outlook Address Book service due to a bug.

I'm reluctant to create a new profile - I'm not sure I know what I'm
doing -
doesn't it mean re-creating my email accounts? I've had to do it in
previous
versions of Outlook when I couldn't get rid of ghost pst folders. Since
Outlook 2007 is otherwise behaving itself, I'm reluctant to mess with
anything I don't properly understand...


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Since the Outlook Address Book lists every electronic address within a
given
Contacts Folder, it provides an easy way to display and select every
email
address in a Contacts Folder.
You create and populate the Contacts subfolder, then enable it for
display
as an electronic address book in its properties.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"browniebodrum" wrote in
message
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Thanks, Russ. I've used Distribution Lists before/as well but I worry
about
keeping them up to date.

Could I trouble you to elaborate on the 'create groups by separate
Contacts
subfolders, then use the Outlook Address Book view of that folder to
select
all the addresses in that folder' idea? Does every contact get its own
subfolder? (Wow!) I'm not sure what you mean. Or could you give me a
link
to some more information to read up on?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

There are several ways to group recipients. It looks like none is
ideal
for
what you want. If you group recipients in the Contacts Folder
(selecting
multiple Contacts or selecting a Category) then Outlook will use only
their
primary email address. You could create groups by separate Contacts
subfolders, then use the Outlook Address Book view of that folder to
select
all the addresses in that folder. You also could create a Distribution
List
would allow you to include all the email addresses. Just be aware that
DL's
tend to be unreliable. As long as you back them up frequently they
could
work for you.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"browniebodrum" wrote in
message
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I want to send emails to a number of organisations I have in Outlook
(2007)Contacts, where I sometimes have two or three email addresses
for
different people in the organisation (and I want to include them all
in
the
email). In the past, I've dragged/copied the contacts to the Drafts
folder,
which creates a blank message with all the primary email addresses
in
the
'To' field, then I've selected all the email addresses and cut and
pasted
them to the BCC field. There are two main problems with this. 1.
Only
the
primary email address in each organisation is used. 2. By using the
BCC
option, people in the SAME organisation can't see which of their
colleagues
have also been sent it, which leads to confusion over who will pick
up
any
tasks/issues in the message. Before I start experimenting with
mailmerge,
any suggestions about simpler ways to overcome these drawbacks would
be
most
welcome.