Followup questions related to Bruce's original question. Context is
maintaining organizational (Org) member email information for use in
broadcast emails to members. The info currently lives in Excel.

1) Can an Outllook DL created directly, either by the copy-paste procedure
you suggest or by keying email addresses directly in the DL's Members list,
rather than created by selecting already-existing Outllook contacts, be
exported to a file for use by other people? If so, how? In my tries so far,
such exported files (in Excel or CSV format) have omitted all distribution
lists.

2) Can I import address/contact data from Excel (or CSV file) into a
separately-named Outlook address/contacts folder rather than to the general
Contacts folder? If so, how? Outlook doesn't seem to allow selecting a
particular destination contacts folder for imported data.

3) Considering that Outlook does allow opening a .pst file with
address/contacts data into a separately named contacts folder, can the
current Excel file be converted into a .pst file either directly or via an
intermediate CSV file? If so, how?

Thanks for all help.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Bruce wrote:

What I want to do is generate a distribution list in Outlook without
having to start from scratch and select each name in the Address
Book. Can this be done?

If you have a semicolon-separated list of addresses in a text file, you can
open a new DL, click "Select Members", then open the address list file and
copy-and-paste the list into the Members field in the address book window.
Click OK and they'll be added to the DL. I've done it so I know it works.
It may also work with a comma-separated list, but I haven't tried that.
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Brian Tillman