Add Recipients to Group in Address Book

April 22 2005 05:46:25 AM Add/Read Comments [7]
Most people are familiar with "Add Sender to Address Book", the feature that creates a Contact document in your Personal Address Book for the person who sent you the email.   But did you know there is a similar feature which allows you to create a group document containing all (or a subset) of the recipient names from a given email?

Either while reading an email message, or when it is selected in a folder/view, choose "Actions - Add Recipients - to new Group in Address Book".

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You will be presented with the following dialog box where you enter the group's name, type (normally you just leave this as Mail only), description, and select/de-select with members you want the group to contain.

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When you press OK, Lotus Notes will automatically create a new mailing group (some people call them distribution lists) in your Personal Address Book, which you can access from the "Groups" view.

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Now when creating an email or calendar entry, you can simply enter the group name instead of typing in all the names individually.    For example, if I named the group above "IBM Executive Team", then I could enter than in the To field...

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and when I press F9 to refresh the document, the group name will be replaced with the names of the members.

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