- [Instructor] Contact list is exactly what it sounds like.
It's a list of people who you want to send, for example,
an email to or invite them all to the same meeting.
In early versions of Outlook,
a contact list was called a distribution list.
More recently was called a contact group,
but it is now a contact list.
To create a new contact list,
simply click the New Contact dropdown
and choose New Contact List.
I'm going to call this list Current Vendors.
And I can begin adding people
to the list by entering their names or email addresses.
And so I have Karla Berry.
Brian LeMee.
Shawn Martinez.
Notice I don't have to type the entire thing,
just enough that they can be found.
Tihomir.
I shouldn't have to add that more than once.
Daniel.
I have two.
It's this one.
And I'm going to create this contact list
for current vendors.
How I use the contact list, for example,
in email is to create a new email.
And then on the To line,
rather than adding them individually,
I just add current vendors.
And they will all be added.
I can see they're all there if I expand this list.
I can't unexpand it though.
It will put all of them here,
so that's the reason not to expand the list
if there are 100 or 200 or 300 people and so on.
I can also do the same thing if I'm creating a new meeting.
When I invite attendees, I can add my current vendors.
Works exactly the same way.
If I need to change the contact list though,
I edit that in the People app.
So return to People,
open the current vendors list and click Edit,
and you can edit right here.
Also, if you wish, you can send an email
to these current vendors
right from here with the Send Email button.
If you need to create a meeting,
you have to go to the calendar.