A few weeks ago, a reader sent me an email asking how to ready upwardly mailing groups in the free Mail app that comes with Microsoft Windows 10. Every bit a long-time user of Office 365 Outlook, which has a plethora of grouping collaboration features, I thought for sure the Mail app would accept at least a few basic grouping controls. But, certain enough, when I checked, in that location were no group tools in either the Mail app or the People app of Windows 10.

Why Microsoft would make the conscious decision to Non include grouping and other collaboration features in the Mail app of Windows 10 is a bit of a mystery. A quick check of the company'due south own customer forums shows that users desire such features and want them now. Merely Microsoft has and so far turned a deafened ear toward their pleas.

However, ane of those irritated Microsoft customers suggested a work around for the trouble that will piece of work in a compression. And, while information technology is non the near elegant of hacks, it is fairly simple to use one time y'all get it prepare. This tutorial shows yous how to use a work around to set mailing groups using the Mail and People apps of Microsoft Windows ten.

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Setting up mailing groups

The first step is to assemble all of the electronic mail addresses of your grouping and the easiest way to practice this is past starting a new e-mail in the Mail app. Just blazon the email addresses of your grouping into the To box–if they are mutual contacts, you can search for the addresses later the first few letters are typed. The results should wait like Figure A.

Once your email list is complete, highlight the entire listing with your mouse cursor (or, press CTRL-A) and then press CTRL-C to copy the list to the clipboard.

Now, start the People app and start a new contact. Give the new contact a group-specific name (TechRepublic editors) and so paste (CTRL-Five) the listing of email addresses into the Personal email box. The results should look similar Effigy B. Press the Salve push to salvage the new contact.

Now, the next time you start a new email in the Post app you can address it to your group. Just click the people icon adjacent to the To box and search for your group contact. As you can see in Figure C, all yous need to do once you discover it, is click the email personal box in the pop-upwards window. The entire listing of email addresses will and then populate the To box (or CC or BCC, if you prefer).

Transmission controls

This work around essentially requires the user to manually do what the Mail service app should do for yous automatically. The procedure is not difficult to accomplish, but it annoys users who expect these group features to be included in all their electronic mail applications. Perhaps Microsoft will automate e-mail groups in a futurity iteration of Windows 10, just until then, this manual technique volition do the trick.

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