On or near 2/2/02 4:30 PM, Richard Shane at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> A. Is there an extensive Entourage manual available anywhere online?
> 
No, not really. The best thing I know of it the book, Office 2001 for
Macintosh: The Missing Manual, by Nan Barber & David Reynolds. But even that
excellent book lacks the trick for populating a new group that Paul shared.
However, starting a new empty group, then selecting multiple contacts from
the Address Book and dragging them to the group, is almost as quick, and
makes a quick way to <add> a bunch of contacts to a group.

> B. I want to take my large group and create a second group that contains
> only some of these people.  I was hoping I could do a "Save As", then edit
> out unwanted names of the second group, but "Save As" is grayed out.  I have
> tried experimenting, but can't find a way.  I'm sure you'll come up with
> something that should have been obvious to me.  Thanks in advance.

Hint: A group can contain another group as a member. I have a small class I
teach locally, and a larger group of people who are more wide-spread
geographically. I have the small, local people in one group, and I have a
second group with the more distant people--PLUS the local ones. So if I send
to the second group, the message goes to everyone, but I can easily target
the local ones by addressing only the first group.

So: First, click on the New Group button and create a new, empty group for
the subset of people. Open your large group. Now select the smaller group of
"some of these people" that you want the second group, using Cmd-Click just
like in Finder to select multiple contacts in the group, and just drag them
from the larger group into the new, empty group. They move over, and
disappear from the first group. (That's OK.)

Now, close the new, smaller group. Click on its icon in the Address Book,
and drag that into the first group. This adds them all back into the first
group (as a group) rather than individually. So it ends up something like
this:

GROUP A:                GROUP B:
John                    Bill
Mary                    Phil
William
GROUP B


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