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Old January 18th 08, 10:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Alice-Marie
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an individual email
message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple contacts into Outlook?
Doing this individually will take forever. Any suggestions? Thanks
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Old January 18th 08, 11:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

Use File Import and Export... to see a list of file types Outlook can
import. You will see that Excel is among them.
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I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an individual
email
message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple contacts into Outlook?
Doing this individually will take forever. Any suggestions? Thanks


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Old January 19th 08, 12:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

Russ, why not have the OP do a mail merge and use the Excel spreadsheet as the source?

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After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Use File Import and Export... to see a list of file types Outlook
| can import. You will see that Excel is among them.
|| I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an
|| individual email
|| message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple contacts into
|| Outlook? Doing this individually will take forever. Any
|| suggestions? Thanks
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Old January 19th 08, 04:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

That would be fine, but wasn't the question that was asked.
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Russ, why not have the OP do a mail merge and use the Excel spreadsheet as
the source?

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After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Use File Import and Export... to see a list of file types Outlook
| can import. You will see that Excel is among them.
|| I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an
|| individual email
|| message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple contacts into
|| Outlook? Doing this individually will take forever. Any
|| suggestions? Thanks

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Old January 19th 08, 11:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

The first question was "I want to send an individual email to each..." - I thought the easiest way was to just use a mail merge.

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| That would be fine, but wasn't the question that was asked.
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| Russ Valentine
| [MVP-Outlook]
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote in message
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| Russ, why not have the OP do a mail merge and use the Excel
| spreadsheet as the source?
|
|
|| Use File Import and Export... to see a list of file types Outlook
|| can import. You will see that Excel is among them.
||| I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an
||| individual email
||| message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple contacts into
||| Outlook? Doing this individually will take forever. Any
||| suggestions? Thanks
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Old January 19th 08, 12:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

I'm not so sure it is the easiest. Have you noticed how many people can't
manage it ?
I assumed the user actually wanted to import the Excel sheet so they could
use any of the several ways to send to multiple recipients.
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Russ Valentine
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"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
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The first question was "I want to send an individual email to each..." - I
thought the easiest way was to just use a mail merge.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| That would be fine, but wasn't the question that was asked.
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| Russ Valentine
| [MVP-Outlook]
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote in message
| ...
| Russ, why not have the OP do a mail merge and use the Excel
| spreadsheet as the source?
|
|
|| Use File Import and Export... to see a list of file types Outlook
|| can import. You will see that Excel is among them.
||| I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an
||| individual email
||| message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple contacts into
||| Outlook? Doing this individually will take forever. Any
||| suggestions? Thanks

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Old January 19th 08, 11:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook][_2_]
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

Hey! You've been looking over my shoulder!

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After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| I'm not so sure it is the easiest. Have you noticed how many people
| can't manage it ?

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Old January 20th 08, 10:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brian Tillman
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Default Can I add multiple contacts from exel/word to Outlook contacts?

Alice-Marie wrote:

I have 300 names in an Excel spreadsheet. I want to send an
individual email message to each. Is there any way to copy multiple
contacts into Outlook? Doing this individually will take forever.
Any suggestions? Thanks


You can use an Excel spreadsheet as a source for addresses using mail merge
in Outlook. No need to transfer the addresses to Outlook first.
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