MS Outlook Distribution lists

[steve s.]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread...please move if necessary.

I use Windows at work, and we use Outlook a great deal.

I occasionally have to send out mass emails and have to use multiple distribution lists. But if someone wants to be removed from the list, it is a pain in the butt looking through 8 or so lists of hunreds of names trying to find one name.

Is there an easier way? I have no choice but to use Outlook to send all these out, so can't change email types. But does anyone know a better way to search these lists?

 

[codeman0013]

Steve here where i work we save them in a database such as excell or a notepad document and then you can search by their name that way and delete it before you copy and paste it into the email.

 

[daygowop]

if you make contact cards for each person, and you delete the contact card of the person that you dont want receive the e-mail, then you can just click update in the distribution list and it will automatically delete him because there is no more contact card.

 

[steve s.]

Thanks for the ideas, all.

We start with an excel file, so it sorts fine then, but then I can't sort easily once the list is made.

And we don't have a card for each person...just don't have that kind of space or patience. Their info comes from another database, then to excel, then to outlook.

It just would be great if I could find a name once it was on the list easily. No way to search that easily?