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Tip Top 20 Books Add-ins More Quick Tip Index Random QA About CreatingManaging groups for Outlook.com accounts I am a new user of Outlook 2013.

Before this I was using online Outlook.com and Outlook 2010 in combination with the Outlook Hotmail Connector.

However, I want to create a simple contacts group for my email but the button for New Contacts Group is greyed out on the Home tab of the People module.

How can I create create a new Contact Group in Outlook 2013 Contact groups are not supported for Outlook.com accounts in Outlook 2013.

Groups which are created on the Outlook.com website will become Categories in Outlook 2013.

There are various other limitations and bugs when using an Outlook.com account in Outlook 2013.

While improvements are planned, you currently have to make do with some creative workarounds.

Categories wont sync back to groups While you can continue to use categories in Outlook, they sadly wont be synching back as groups to Outlook.com.

In fact, when you would again edit this contact on-line or on another device such as a smartphone, tablet or another computer with Outlook, the category which you assigned via Outlook 2013 will be stripped again.

Email to Contact Groups via Categories You still can use your originally created Contact Groups to address emails though.

By sorting your Contacts folder by Category, your online Contact Groups become visible again.

Choose: Change View- List In the Arrangements Gallery choose: Categories Select the Group Header (category name) From the Communicate group on the Home tab click E-mail.

This will create a new email address to all the people in that group.

Optionally, you can select all these addresses and move them to the BCC field if you do not which to expose your group members to everyone.

Microsoft is improving Outlook 2013 support for Outlook.com Microsoft is aware of these limitations and various other bugs concerning Contact syncing and EAS sync between Outlook 2013 an Outlook.com in general.

HTML visible in the Other field on Outlook.com for contacts created in Outlook.

No way to move a message from another account into an EAS account.

Both the Outlook Team and the Outlook.com Team are actively working on improving and extending the EAS feature set for Outlook.comHotmail accounts.

However, nothing has been mentioned about which features will be added, let alone when they will be made available.

In general, updates to the Outlook.com platform are rolled out halfway each quarter.

Recommended alternatives For now, it is recommended to continue to do all group mutations via the Outlook.com website rather than via Outlook itself.

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