That was not helpful. I have outlook 2007 and the help menu has not changed.
Whether you reply to all and copy or copy the received e-mail it won't work.
I believe this is designed to work only if the contacts are in the address
book. However, right below the process it puts a note that says "a member
does not need to be in your address book in order to be added to the
distribution list. The members name and email address will be included when
you copy and paste from the original email message."

My wife deleted our Sunday School e-mail list which is very large and I have
all the addresses in the last e-mail. However, there is no way to make a
distribution list from these names.
--
Bryant


"stefko98" wrote:

your problem is most likely in control panel/mail. there are a few settings
there to configure.
--
stevo


"enviro-lean" wrote:

Thanks Judy. e

"Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook)" wrote:

the method in help did NOT work for me. you could post to the make a wish
site to let Microsoft know.

"enviro-lean" wrote in message
...
Thanks again for your help Brian. Maybe I am interpreting the help
instructions incorrectly.

Someone sent me an email from outlook that has 36 to: names in it and
aksed
that I create a distirbution list that I can send emails to. When I read
the
help file in outlook it says all I need to do is copy the names from the
recieved email and past them in a new DL. This does not seem to work when
I
try to do it. The names in the to: field of the email are in the
"Outlook"
format where the recipinets name is visible ie "enviro-lean" rather than
environ-lean@envcompsys,com. However, these names include the email
information (when you put the cursor over the name you get the little
outlook
ball which then if you click on the ball and then click on properties
shows
you the entier email address).

I believe that help instruction are not correct now (maybe there were in
the
past). You cannot copy a list of names from an email you recieve and
create
a distribution list. I can understand why microsoft would want to disable
this feature to control spam but it wastes a lot of peopls time when they
dont come right out and tell you that they have disabled ths function.

It is also possible that there is a corruption in my outlook program but
I
doubt it. I have taken the time to do what Judy suggested in her first
reply
so the issue is not really an issue anymore ( I have worked around the
problem). I am just curious as to whether anybody is interested in
fessing
up to the incorrect info in the help file or if this forum wants to
pretened
that the outlook help is correct.


"Brian Tillman" wrote:

enviro-lean wrote:

I am glad that the distribution list from email method described in
the outlook help file works for you but it does not work for either
Judy or I.

I never said the method in the Help works. I've never read that part of
the
help.
What I said was if I have a character string composed of mail addresses
separated by semi-colons (in a text file, for example) and I select that
character string and copy it to the clipboard, when I open a DL and click
Select Members, I can paste this string in the Members field, click OK
and
thet all get added to the DL. If that matches what the help said, great.
If it doesn't, it's irrelevant because I wasn't claiming it did.
--
Brian Tillman