{"id":284,"date":"2017-09-21T22:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/?p=284"},"modified":"2017-09-21T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T22:58:37","slug":"save-outlook-contact-group-attached-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/09\/21\/save-outlook-contact-group-attached-email\/","title":{"rendered":"How to save an Outlook Contact Group that is attached to an email?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscriber Deesha P. asks \u2018I had a contact group (distribution list) forwarded to me and I\u2019m trying to save it to my contacts, but no luck\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Contact Group (or distribution list as it used to be called) is a great way to send an email to a group of individuals. If you have a Contact Group attached to an email, you can open the Contact Group and then click on the Save and Close button but nothing seems to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you save the Contact Group in your Contacts folder? Use Drag-and-Drop!<br \/>\n1. Double-click to open the message with the attached Contact Group<br \/>\n2. Move and size the email window and your main Outlook window so you can see part of both windows at the same time<br \/>\n3. In the Outlook window, select Contacts<br \/>\n4. Switch back to the email and drag the Contact Group from the email and drop it on Contacts<br \/>\nThis will copy the Contact Group to your Contacts folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscriber Deesha P. asks \u2018I had a contact group (distribution list) forwarded to me and I\u2019m trying to save it to my contacts, but no luck\u2019 A Contact Group (or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to save an Outlook Contact Group that is attached to an email? - Alandale Training Software Tips<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/09\/21\/save-outlook-contact-group-attached-email\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to save an Outlook Contact Group that is attached to an email? 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