Thanks for your explanation.
Upon further investigation I see that Contact Groups in WLM are
more flexible than I had experienced with WM.
WLM contact groups are expandable (thus can be trimmed on the
fly), while WM contact groups can't be expanded on the 'To' line,
so it's only an all-or-nothing distribution list.

Chalk one up in the win column for WLM!

Gary VanderMolen


"Ildhund" <jnllb@removemsn.com> wrote in message news:eEEutE5rHHA.4364@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> It's years since I last used OE so I can't compare with that, but I have trouble understanding your problem. I have groups of
> contacts, some of them overlapping (i.e. Jim is in both the group called "Family" and that called "Environment"). If I want to
> send a message to just the immediate family, I select "Family" in the Contacts list and click "To:",* expand the group and
> delete the ones I don't want the message to go to. "Family" comes after "Eyvind" but before "Fanny" in the list - and it's in
> bold type.
>
> *Actually, I just begin typing "fam..." in the To: field and the group name pops up ready for selection.
>
> Noel
>
> "Doug Custer" <DougCuster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1793D07E-3C51-4C2D-AA20-6B6F2480F0D0@microsoft.com...
>> In OE, I could go into the Adress Book and create different folders in my
>> Contact area. I might have a folder for "Golfing Buddies" and another for
>> "Work Buddies". I could add different contacts into each folder and they
>> would remain separated. In WLMail I don't see where I can keep a separate
>> folder for each group. When I click "New Message" and then to "To" button,
>> all my contacts are all together... which sucks because now I have to weed
>> through all of them to find the few that I want. I tried setting up "groups"
>> in Contacts, but I don't see the groups with I click to "To" button.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>> --
>> Doug
>