Can't nest WLM's categories like OE's groups? thnewton 12/30/2008 9:06:22 PM hi, when managing contacts in oe i was able to group contacts and then create email distribution lists from multiple groups - a very powerful feature. in wlm, the categories feature is completely flat - no nesting possible. I'm using 14.0.8050.1202

Re: Can't nest WLM's categories like OE's groups? "GbH" <Geoff_Hannington[ at ]IEE.ORGasm> 12/30/2008 9:46:11 PM "thnewton" <thnewton[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:35AC1FCE-CCF2-49BD-AB58-6C559995A868[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > hi, when managing contacts in oe i was able to group contacts and then > create > email distribution lists from multiple groups - a very powerful > feature. in > wlm, the categories feature is completely flat - no nesting possible. > I'm > using 14.0.8050.1202 Group nesting is one of the admirable features of OE that unfortunately didn't survive the transition to WLM. I personally am very happy the crippled OE message store didn't either. -- Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I wish I could remember the darn question

Re: Can't nest WLM's categories like OE's groups? "Dave" <dave[ at ]beepbeepbeepbeep.com> 12/30/2008 11:08:49 PM WLM has groups, which are mail lists. It doesn't have any other organization methods. -- Vista Home Premium 32 SP2 beta http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "thnewton" <thnewton[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:35AC1FCE-CCF2-49BD-AB58-6C559995A868[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > hi, when managing contacts in oe i was able to group contacts and then > create > email distribution lists from multiple groups - a very powerful feature. > in > wlm, the categories feature is completely flat - no nesting possible. I'm > using 14.0.8050.1202

Re: Can't nest WLM's categories like OE's groups? "Ildhund" <jnllb[ at ]removemsn.com> 12/30/2008 11:40:23 PM The OP says he uses v. 14, which doesn't have 'groups' - it has Categories, a rose by any other name. But that doesn't mean that 'it doesn't have any other organization methods.' Here are two suggestions: (1) Be creative with Nicknames. Give all your tennis mates nicknames like T Andy, T Bill, T Charlie. All your workmates get nicknames like W Charlie, W Dave and W Eddie. Then, when you want to mail your tennis team, type 'T ' in the To: field and all your tennis contacts will appear ready to be picked from. Charlie can easily figure in both lists. If all your T contacts belong to a category called Tennis, then you can just start typing 'Tennis' in the To: field. If you want to exclude some from a particular mailing, a click on the '+' sign will reveal all the contacts in that category; just delete the appropriate ones. (2) For even more segregation, use Live IDs to set up separate lists of contacts for work, family, hobby or whatever. These again can contain duplicates, but they won't synchronize. That means that if Charlie gets a new phone number, you'll have to change it in each list that he figures in. It's quick and easy to change your sign-in ID, and the moment you've done so, the contacts associated with that ID will be available. There are other possibilities, too, but that will do for now. -- Noel "Dave" <dave[ at ]beepbeepbeepbeep.com> wrote in message news:OCUfVOtaJHA.4820[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > WLM has groups, which are mail lists. > It doesn't have any other organization methods. > Vista Home Premium 32 SP2 beta > http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview > http://download.live.com/wlmail > "thnewton" <thnewton[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:35AC1FCE-CCF2-49BD-AB58-6C559995A868[ at ]microsoft.com... >> hi, when managing contacts in oe i was able to group contacts and >> then create >> email distribution lists from multiple groups - a very powerful >> feature. in >> wlm, the categories feature is completely flat - no nesting >> possible. I'm >> using 14.0.8050.1202 >