In Microsoft Outlook I would like to send an email to contacts within
a certain category. This is not to be confused with creating standard
distribution lists. What are the steps to sending emails to contacts
in categories or quickly creating a distribution list based off of a
category? Outlook help is not being very helpful on this issue and I
don't even konw if it's possible or not.

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Clarification of Question by princeofp-ga on 02 May 2005 08:04 PDT

I am using Outlook 2003

It would be very helpful to know which version you're using.

2003

I believe the solution you are looking for is using the mail merge
feature.  You can send an email to all, a distribution list, or in
this case you would select a category during the merge when prompted. 
The link below takes you to the Microsoft site with many help files on
performing a mail merge with your contacts by category, etc.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC%2CEM%2CES%2CFX%2CHA%2CHP%2CQZ%2CRC%2CTC%2CXT&Query=email+merge+categories

As for your question about quickly creating a distribution list... You
can sort them by category (View/Arrange by/ Categories) and then when
you create the new distribution list you can Ctrl Shift to select
those that you want to add very quickly.  Hope this helps Kauai Dawn 
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/cmekauai