Windows 10: People Group- Distribution Lists

Trying to add some of my contacts to a Distribution List using the Group function. Can't see the Group in the options section

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Distribution List/Contact Group in Windows 10 People

Is it not a backward step to remove the option for Distribution Lists in Outlook? People, such as myself, who run voluntary groups or clubs etc will regularly need to send the same emails to a group of people and now we have to do it individually, what a waste
of time. I thought technology tools were supposed to make things easier, obviously not!

 

Distribution List/Contact Group in Windows 10 People

The situation is that Windows 10 Mail does not support distribution lists or group mailing. Outlook.com does, so they can be created there, not very simple, Select People and then in the NEW drop down menu select Contact List.

Any Contact list in Outlook.com will not synch into the People app in Windows 10, so can only be used in outlook.com web mail.

If you want List support on your computer you must install a Microsoft Office package that includes an email app, OR install Emclient (free version), this will allow Distribution List creation that will synch to outlook.com or gmail or email app on your
mobile phone. To ensure that outlook.com does synch contacts with Emclient the outlook.com account must be set up as an exchange account. Simple really, when setting up a new account select the exchange option and enter your email address and password, the
account will then set itself up.

Hope this clarifies for you.

 

Distribution List/Contact Group in Windows 10 People

Does Microsoft even look at this website or the Hub? I just went to the Hub and upvoted on relevant issues that had been logged. I searched "groups for email", "distribution lists for email", "people groups" and "contact groups". Any that showed up in
different searches were already upvoted, so those numbers aren't included in what I found. I didn't include Skype issues or tile groups.

Just in this small selection of wording searches, there were over 90 issues with over 26.200 people requesting the ability to set up groups. What's the point of trying to talk to Microsoft?????