Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Creating and Using Distribution Lists

It's easy to create a new email to a contact. You can right-click a contact and select New Message to Contact, or you can compose a new email and add the contact's email address manually (or you can click the To button to display the address selector). You can send email messages to any number of recipients this way. However, if you send emails to the same group of individuals on a regular basis, consider creating a distribution list that contains an entire group of contacts.

You can then use the distribution list to send email or arrange meetings. You can create a distribution list that contains all members of the marketing department rather than sending to each member separately. Distribution lists are ...