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Roadstir_VA
Copper Contributor
May 25, 2023

How to add a large group of emails to a new Outlook group?

I am getting a reunion together and received a group email with 60 addresses.  How would I add these 60 addresses to a newly created contact group all at once?   Thanks
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NikolinoDE
Gold Contributor
Jan 31, 2024

Whovian56 

If you are using Outlook on the web and are experiencing limitations in adding contacts to a contact group directly from a category list, you might need to use a workaround.

Here's an alternative method:

  1. Open Outlook on the web and go to the "People" section.
  2. Create a new contact group by clicking on "New" and then selecting "Contact Group."
  3. Give your contact group a name.
  4. Open a new browser tab and go to your main Outlook on the web page.
  5. In this tab, go to "People" and select the category that includes the contacts you want to add to the group.
  6. Copy the email addresses of the contacts (you can do this by right-clicking on the selected email addresses and choosing "Copy").
  7. Return to the tab where you are creating the contact group and paste the email addresses into the "Members" field manually.
  8. After pasting the email addresses, separate them with semicolons (;) if they are not automatically separated.
  9. Click "Save" or the equivalent option to save the contact group.

This method involves copying and pasting the email addresses manually from your category list to the contact group, bypassing the absence of a direct option to select contacts from categories in the "Add Members" section on Outlook on the web. The text and steps were edited with the help of AI.

 

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Hope this will help you.

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Whovian56
Copper Contributor
Mar 17, 2025

NikolinoDE

Theitem 3 & 4 lines do not show in Web based Outlook.  And the other item is that I'm trying to add new contacts in bulk to an existing group.

Here's an alternative method:

  1. Open Outlook and go to the "People" section.
  2. In the toolbar at the top, click on the "Home" tab.
  3. Click on the "New Contact Group" button. This will open a new window for creating a contact group.
  4. In the contact group window, enter a name for the group in the "Name" field.
  5. Click on the "Add Members" button in the toolbar at the top.
  6. From the dropdown menu, select "From Address Book". This will open the "Select Members" window.
  7. In the "Select Members" window, click on the address book or contacts folder that contains the emails you want to add to the group.
  8. Hold down the "Ctrl" key on your keyboard and click on each email address you want to add to the group. This allows you to select multiple email addresses at once.
  9. After selecting all the desired email addresses, click on the "Members ->" button to add them to the contact group.
  10. Once you have added all the email addresses, click on the "OK" button to close the "Select Members" window.
  11. Back in the contact group window, you will see the list of email addresses you added. You can review and modify the names or email addresses if needed.
  12. Click on the "Save & Close" button to save the contact group

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