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.
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Brian Tillman