From
within the Outlook Address Book, you can create a new mail message to a
contact or distribution list by selecting that entry (or holding the
Ctrl key and clicking on multiple entries) and clicking on the new mail
message button ( You
can also access the Outlook Address Book from a new mail message. Just
open a new mail message and click the To, CC, or BCC buttons.
If
you look carefully, you can see the address book icon (
In
the top part of the screen, we’ll see the same options we had in the
address list. We can type in the box on the left to jump to a particular
contact. We can also select which address list we want to see from the
drop-down menu on the right. The contents of whichever contacts list we
choose will be displayed in the main window. To
address our mail message, just select the contact or distribution list
we want (remember that we can select multiple address by holding Ctrl
and clicking each of them). Then, select which field we want to place
those addresses in by clicking the To, CC, or BCC buttons at the bottom
of the window.
Here’s an example of a completed Select Names window:
You
can see how we used the search window at the top to jump to Elmer Fudd’s
contact. You can also see how your contacts appear in the fields at the
bottom. Once
we’ve got this window filled out, click OK to go back to your mail
message. You’ll see your recipients there, too, like this:
You
can go back to the Select Names box at any time (before you send your
message, of course) to change your recipients. You can type them in the
To, CC, or BCC fields too, even after you’ve used the Select Names box.
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) on the
toolbar. (You can also select your recipients, click on the File menu,
and click New Message.) Once you’ve made that choice, a new mail message
window will open with your recipients in the To line. All you have to do
is type in the Subject and the Body and send your message!
) next to
each of those buttons. When we click one of those mail fields, we’ll see
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