Hi,

I recently set up a distribution list in Outlook 2007 and synched
using WMDC and Vista with my ATT Tilt/WM6 Pro phone. using WMDC and Vista .
However,now when I look in Contacts on my phone, no distribution list.
Does WM6/Outlook 2007 allow distribution lists to be synched as contacts?

Jeff

Ed,
Thanks,
Didn't look like it did.
Appreciate it :-)

Would be a neat idea for future WinMobile o.s.'s

Jeff

"Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices"
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> "Jeff" <S.Cerevisiae@hmm.edu> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>> I recently set up a distribution list in Outlook 2007 and
>> synched
>>using WMDC and Vista with my ATT Tilt/WM6 Pro phone. using WMDC and Vista
>>.
>>However,now when I look in Contacts on my phone, no distribution list.
>>Does WM6/Outlook 2007 allow distribution lists to be synched as contacts?
>
> Unfortunately, no. AFAIK, there is no good way to do this either.
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>> AFAIK, there is no good way to do this either <<

There are a couple of kludges...

You can create a separate contact containing multiple email addresses,
then select that record when emailing. (Can't remember, but there may
be a length limit on the field.)

Set a category (do wm6 contacts support categories?) for the members of
the list, then select that after tapping the contacts icon when
composing and tap each visible contact.

You can store a string of email addresses in a note, then copy/paste
that into the address field... use ";" between addresses.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Wow,

more info,
seems a tad intensive, I appreciate it though,
generally I'm not that far removed from my lappy, but I'll give your 1st.
suggestion a shot.
Being a ppc newb, not sure about the 2nd choice, probably not too difficult
but, at this point, unless it's urgent; (in which case, the phone always
works, or I can wait to get to my lappy), I'll try choice #1.
Thanks,
:-)

Jeff

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
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> >> AFAIK, there is no good way to do this either <<
>
> There are a couple of kludges...
>
> You can create a separate contact containing multiple email addresses,
> then select that record when emailing. (Can't remember, but there may be
> a length limit on the field.)
>
> Set a category (do wm6 contacts support categories?) for the members of
> the list, then select that after tapping the contacts icon when composing
> and tap each visible contact.
>
> You can store a string of email addresses in a note, then copy/paste that
> into the address field... use ";" between addresses.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

>> not sure about the 2nd choice <<

There are a large number of hidden options in contacts to make life
easier and well worth the time needed to learn them.

Categories (which I am not sure if they still exist) can be very
powerful as contacts can be in multiple categories.

Some tips on this at http://BevHoward.com/bhhpj.htm#Contact

....but note that, as of WM5, MS chose to remove some of the more useful
features such as selecting multiple contacts and vcard support.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

At 20 Jan 2008 13:22:46 -0600 Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:


> Categories (which I am not sure if they still exist)

They still exist in WM6, but you can't sync just certain categories
anymore, and the Contacts app no longer "remembers" what category you were
viewing- each time you open it, it defaults to "all."


> ...but note that, as of WM5, MS chose to remove some of the more
> useful features such as selecting multiple contacts and vcard support.

That's a Windows Mobile upgrade in a nutshell- two steps forward, one step
back. ;-)

>> two steps forward, one step back. <<

seems more like one step forward, two steps back ;-)

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

At 22 Jan 2008 08:36:11 -0600 Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:

> seems more like one step forward, two steps back ;-)


Sometimes it does. Moving from WM2003 to WM5 was the first time I really
didn't feel I was upgrading- going from 2000 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2003
I never really looked back and said "why did they change this? I liked the
old way better." Going from 2003 to WM5, however, I was very frustrated
with some of the design decisions (including some that others liked!)
"Persistent storage" was a letdown- IMO the "security" it offers was not
worth the performance hit of the slow flash memory. (Opening/closing a 2kb
note, for example, takes a couple of seconds vs. nearly instantaneously on
my old Dell Axim or Audiovox Maestro.) I'm a heavy user of PPCs- I've
never left mine in a drawer long enough for the battery to run down, and I
use it (and charge it) every day. The end of WiFi sync was a very hard
adjustment for me- I've gone from syncing several times a day to once a
week!

However, life is full of trade-offs, and having a convergence device, even
one with WM5/6, outweighed schlepping a separate PPC and phone around
everywhere. (I couldn't find a phone with WM2003, QVGA touchscreen,
integrated WiFi and 2.5G cellulr data, so I opted for the T-Mobile MDA/HTC
Wizard.)

I probably would like it more if I'd never used WM2003, which I still
consider the pinnacle of Windows Mobile in terms of performance, stability,
flexibility and useability. WM5/6 isn't bad, it's just a little bit of a
letdown in comparison.

WM6 tries to make up for it in added features and sort of succeeds-
integrated VoIP in the phone app was a nice touch- I'd miss it if I went
back to WM2003, and IE Mobile and Messaging are quite a bit better than PIE
and Inbox (but still not where they need to be, particularly in light of
devices like the iPhone that got them so much better on the first try!)

I have faith in Microsoft, however. I think the sudden popularity of
smartphones with consumers will convince MS to devote more resources to
improving the platform.