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Thread ID: 93998 2008-10-09 23:26:00 How Can I Save External DL in Outlook Contacts? learning (5137) Press F1
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711160 2008-10-09 23:26:00 I have recived an email with a an attachment. The attachment is a personal distribution list (the attachment icon is a little card with 2 little heads)
And the DL has several contacts within it. This DL is not a Global Exchange level DL but from someones personal Contacts


What is the easiest way of importing the distribution list into my own
"contacts" in Outlook and so it saves as a DL under my contacts

I can open individual contacts within the DL and add it one by one to my contacts but even then i will have to then create a DL in my Outlook contacts and then add those individual contacts into it

I am running Outlook 2003

Thanks
learning (5137)
711161 2008-10-09 23:29:00 Did you double click on it, to see if OL would import / open it? Speedy Gonzales (78)
711162 2008-10-09 23:30:00 Lol just found out i could drag and drop attachment into directs directly...

Just curious if theres any other way....but i am good now :)
learning (5137)
711163 2008-10-09 23:31:00 Think you have to use the import function.....File>import>*.vcf. Not sure if you can import someones else's DL though, contacts yes! SolMiester (139)
711164 2008-10-09 23:40:00 Thanks Solmiester/Speedy

Had typo in prev post...I dragged attachment (DL) and dropped into contacts pane and it was fine.

Speedy - i open the DL attachment and when i go to save it, the file types are .msg, .oft or as rich text. So i couldnt open it directly from Contacts after saving it

I would have thought there would be easier way of doin this then importing...but oh well its working easy enuff via drag n drop so all good
learning (5137)
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