very easy question re address books/group contacts

[onepieceoflollipop]

Hi, apologies that this seems a very simple question but I am not technically minded.

I have been doing some charity work and often receive (appropriate) e-mails along with a whole lot of other people. So, the sender obviously has set up a group contact and sends to all of us. Is there a quick way of me setting up a group contact list myself. The only way I know is to write them all down longhand then type them all laboriously into the address book and make them into a group contact. This would take ages - there are about 50 names and addresses!

Is there some way I can click on them and cut and paste? Any advice would need to be simple (please).

Are you using Outlook? If so, File New Group...

It's Windows Mail so slightly different, but I did click on file and if I play around there are various (easy) ways I can work it out from there.

You have been very helpful thanks.

My pleasure - the only thread I've read tonight where people aren't getting cross with each other!

Oh no! (Don't worry BodenGroupie I am not getting cross, just a bit frustrated)

I worked out how to reply to all the names in the group, and accidentally sent the original e-mail back to them. But I realised that I don't know how to forward a completely different e-mail on to them! So you were a big help, but only partially.

Does anyone else have Windows Mail and know how to do this? Thanks.

can you not right click on the name and add it to your contacts?

once they are in your contacts it is fairly quick to set up a group list.

I use Thunderbird now, but have done similar in Outlook and Exchange

palaver I probably can right click on the names - never thought to try that. (have clicked on most other things though!)

Thanks for the suggestions, off to try again!

let me know if it works

right, I clicked on them all (and saved the ones into my address book that weren't there already)

Then I set up a new Group Contact, had to go through and select them one by one, took a while but is done now (and I am slow anyway!)

Thanks so much, it was one of those silly niggly little jobs that one never gets round to.

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