Note: In Outlook 2007, you need to click the File > New > Distribution List. Step 6: Create a new contact group with clicking the New Contact Group button on the Home tab in the Contacts or People view.

(3) Click two OK buttons to close both dialog boxes. (2) In the Create New Folder dialog box, enter a name for the new folder in the Name box, and then click to select a contact folder in the Select where to place the folder box (1) In the Move Items or Copy Items dialog box, click the New button Step 5: To Move or copy the selected contacts with the specified category to a new folder, you need to: By the way, the Moves to Folder option won’t display if you select only one contact. Note: In Outlook 2007, right click the selected contacts, and select the Move to Folder from the right-clicking menu. Select all searching results with clicking one contact, and then pressing the Ctrl + A keys simultaneously then right click the selected contacts, and then click the Move > Copy to Folder from the right clicking menu. Step 4: Then all contacts marked as Orange Category are listed out. In our example, we click the Categorized > Orange Category on the Search Tab. Step 3: Click the Categorized button (or Categories field), and then select the specified category from the drop down list on the Search tab. Note: In Outlook 2007, expand the Query Builder with clicking the arrow above the contact list, then click the Add Criteria > Categories to show the Categories field into the Query Builder. Step 2: Activate the Search Tools in Ribbon with putting cursor into the search box above contacts. Step 1: Shift to the People view (or Contact view), and open the specified contact folder that the contacts with the specified category are in.

The following steps will walk you through creating a contact group from a certain category in Microsoft Outlook easily.

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