I've had some luck with simple drag and drop operations with the address book (note: drag & drop--the normal cut & paste operation may not work in this case). It doesn't seem to work straight from the Reply field, so as an intermediate step, try highlighting a few of the addresses and paste them in a Word (or whatever) document window. Then do find and replace, changing commas to paragraph marks. This should turn it all to a one column list, with each address on one line. Highlight & Drag this list to an open Group address window and drop them in. You may have to clean up a bit, but I've done this operation with a list copied from a text file with the addresses on separate lines, and from a column in an excel spreadsheet and for the most part it worked real well for 300+ addresses. Addresses in a CC field are usually delimited with commas, sometimes with the name followed by the actual address with <brackets> around.
This isn't real good if you have to do it over and over, but for quickly creating a group from one already, it can work, and it's better than typing. It seems you can't highlight a number of names in a group window, at least not in OE 5. > From: "Mac Outlook Express Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:00:01 -0800 > To: "Mac Outlook Express Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: MacOE-Talk Digest - 01/24/04 > > From: Jerry Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:10:05 +1000 > Subject: easy way to add addresses from text??? > > > > Hi, > > Recently, I've been part of a large group of people e-mailing each other > back and forth. The first person dumped his whole address book into the > message and everybody else has just been hitting the "reply to all" button > ever since. However, I'd like to send information back to only a select > number from that list (about 115 names), and would rather not have to enter > the list manually into the address book. > > Is there any way to bring a group of listings from the sender's CC or the > body of the message into OE's address book automatically? To do this > manually will be a pain. As well, there are other sets of addresses I'd like > to work with in a similar fashion. > > The Add Contact script only works with the actual sender's address, and not > the others, unless I'm missing something. > > Please feel free to respond directly to me, as well as to the list. > > Hope you can help. > > Thanks. > > Jerry -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://athena.doe.com> Unofficial Outlook Express Page: <http://www.macemail.com/oe/>
