greg wm wrote: > hi folks, > > in attempting to wean my organization from outlook, i've got one of our > most experienced and dedicated volunteers being the guinea pig and using > (windows) mozilla thunderbird. > > yesterday she asked me for help copying numerous recipients out of excel > and into mozilla. looks like it can't be done. whether preparing a > message, or preparing a list in the address book, it appears each > recipient must be typed or pasted one by one. did i miss something? > > using outlook, she can simply copy an excel column of email addresses, > and paste it into a message window recipient field. but of course > outlook has shown itself to behave quite badly if any of the recipient > addresses happen to be bad, sometimes even resending the message to many > of the good recipients numerous times. > > me, i'd just vi. but lets be real, i'm not volunteering to do her job, > and she's not volunteering to learn my skills. > > a hint of background: she'll often be extracting lists from the > organizations's database, donorperfect, into excel. it's on my list to > review other databases for our use. suggestions welcome. > > anyway i'm advising her to prepare a mailman list in circumstances where > entering mozilla addresses singly is too tedious. any other suggestions > for her? > > greg > -- > Greg Whitley Mott > IT Coordinator > NonviolentPeaceforce.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > I'm not 100% certain, but I believe that if she saved the Excel data (email addresses only) as comma delimited she could then copy the whole comma delimitted data list and paste in the to field in a write window. HTH Pat