Where are my Groups?
Posted Feb 27th 2008 10:56PM by Laura Peterson
Filed under: Member Education, AOL Desktop
Groups in AOL Desktop are called Mailing Lists, which are accessible from the "Mailing List" button in the bottom right of your Address Book. When you click on "Mailing Lists", a new window will open with all of your existing groups appearing as tabs on the left side.
To edit the contacts inside your mailing lists, click on the tab to bring that mailing list to focus. Then, use the buttons at the bottom to edit or remove contacts, or to add new ones to that mailing list. Use the text field at the top (where "type a screen name" appears) to begin typing the name of someone from your address book to easily reference and add contacts to a mailing list.
Clicking "new contact" in the Mailing List area will let you add a brand new contact to an existing or new mailing list. Choose which mailing list you want to add your new contact to in the "Categories" section. Click the box to the right of the "Mailing List" label. This box will expand and let you select your preferred mailing list or create a new one. You can also assign a single contact to multiple mailing lists by clicking the "+" and repeating the process I just described.
Cheers,
Laura
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. I know how to manage my groups. According to AOL Help and the blog, the Mailing List button should be in the lower right hand side of my computer. It's not. How do I get it to show up?
Genia
Posted at 2:22PM on Mar 4th 2008 by Genia
2. Genia -- try looking at the bottom right of your Address Book (not your computer). :) Hope that helps.
Posted at 7:53PM on Feb 28th 2008 by Laura Peterson
3. Where are my address book contacts from 9.1?! They aren't there! I figured that when i went to write mail it would auto complete but it didn't. That's when i noticed my contacts weren't there. Is there something i've missed or need to do?
Posted at 4:42PM on Mar 1st 2008 by clb8904
4. When I first saw the question, the wording of it made me think the poster was inquiring about the old Groups which were wiped out basically and replaced by a new format which is in a beta test which has languished due to lack of response from AOL developers. Laura, I'm glad you specified that Groups in Desktop are Mailing Lists! I bring this up because there may be confusion on the part of some, especially those that were active in a Group in AOL. Franki
Posted at 12:09PM on Mar 2nd 2008 by Franki
5. The mailing list (group) of interest comes up when I hit Address, then Mailing List, then the specific list, but not all of the individual addresses can be edited, because the Edit and Remove buttons do not function (they fade to half-tone) if there is no name in the Name column, but just an email address in the Address column. This problem does not occur in the All Contacts screen or General screen. How can I edit or remove such addresses in mailing lists?
Posted at 1:56PM on Mar 24th 2008 by Dan
6. I am having huge trouble with groups, lists and generally the address book in the new AOL desktop.
The main problem is that what I add in the DeskTop version doesn't seem to be visible in the old 9.1 or on the Internet (aolmail.aol.com)
I have several computers and sometimes use computers in other places. If what I do on DeskTop isn't available everywhere, I would say that is more than a bug, it is a disaster.
Posted at 1:24PM on Mar 29th 2008 by Jay Mulberry
7. Jay, thanks for the head's up on this. We have been able to see the issue you've described, and we're checking it out. It may be a synch issue (data from AOL Desktop not getting sent to the host correctly, before filtering to other applications like webmail). Hope to have more info for you soon if it still isn't working in a few days.
Posted at 1:55PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Laura Peterson
8. I am having the same issue. I cannot edit my mailing lists in AOL desktop. The Edit contact and Remove contact are grayed out! Driving me crazy!
Posted at 9:57PM on Apr 3rd 2008 by stuwil
9. Dan and Stuwil, is this inability to edit occuring with groups that you transferred over from / created in 9.0 or 9.1?
Posted at 6:56AM on Apr 4th 2008 by Laura Peterson
10. Yes, my groups were transferred from AOL 9. Any contacts I have added to mailing lists in AOL Desktop are editable, my old ones are not.
Posted at 1:19PM on Apr 5th 2008 by stuwil
11. hello everyone,
recently i have registered to AOL mailing service,well i am facing a little problem with it.
as i was using yahoo mail earlier,all my contacts and e-mail addresses r saved in yahoo's address book.as the contact list is quite long,manually adding these address one by one to the AOL will be tedious and tiresome,so is there any way i can transfer my yahoo address book directly to AOL mail?
i tried the IMPORT facility given in AOL to transfer the address,but i am exactly not been able to understand the exact format to do so.
so,it would be very helpfull if anyone help me about it
thanks in anticipation
abhishek
Posted at 9:17AM on Apr 16th 2008 by abhishek