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You can perform any one activity from the following:Ī) To add any person from your contacts or with whom you have recently sent or received mail : Click Add, Enter the few alphabets of the group or person's name. Then, Enter any name for the contact group. To create a contact group, you need to set the preferences to display the On My Computer folders:ī) From Personal Settings, Click General.Ĭ) From Folder list, Disable the Hide On My Computer folders checkbox. If Contact Group is not present then, you need to create that: Click Contacts from the bottom of the navigation tab. To make suggestions, UserVoice is your best friend in this case or through the “Contact Support” button located in the upper right hand corner in the Outlook 2016 for Mac client as shown here.To create contact group in Outlook 2011 Mac, Follow the given below steps: View entry points to other group workloads and navigate to them from the group card.View group details, and manage my subscription settings from the group card.Add groups events to your personal calendar.Scenarios that not enabled yet but are slated for V1 release:.Groups calendar view is out of scope for V1 release.Compose/Reply/Forward messages and send attachments.Select a group in the left navigation pane to view conversations and attachments in the group shared space.

View your top 10 list of groups in the left navigation pane.If you’re curious about other capabilities like Calendars and such… they’re coming soon (hopefully) but as the blog article mentions there are supported scenarios at the moment as follows: Scenarios to try out:

However, if you click Reply All, you’ll notice that you’re pushing to the Distribution list…Īnd as mentioned, to create a new message within the context of the Group, you’ll need to know the distribution list name of the group when you click on “New Message” within Outlook 2016 for Mac…Īfter you work through your message you’ll notice that when you press send it will post back into the thread as one might expect it to… Of course the other thing to make note of is that since Groups make use of distribution lists, if within the Outlook for Mac client you click on “Reply” you’ll notice that you’re sending a note directly back to the original poster rather than a note to the entire group, thereby segmenting your conversation. The caveat is that within the Outlook for Mac 2016 UI, you don’t have the ability to “easily” create a new thread in that discussion unless you go and create a new message and then lookup the discussion list name whereas in the Web UI you merely click on “New”. The interactions with the UI are pretty decent. If you’re used to the web view then you’re probably familiar with something that looks a little more like this:
CREATING GROUPS EMAILS IN OUTLOOK FOR MAC 2016 WINDOWS
Recently announced, hot off the press, Office 365 Groups are coming to Outlook 2016 for Mac! More about this and what the scope of this release is yonder on the Outlook for Mac Insights blog on 2 March 2017 titled “ Support for Groups in Outlook for Mac.”Ĭaveat, this is by way of the Insider builds fast ring at the moment, so if you’re a corporate user and you’re wondering where this is, give it sometime and keep on accessing groups through either a Windows VM in your favorite hypervisor on Mac (whether that be Parallels, VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion) or through Safari / Chrome / Firefox.
