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Choosing contacts for Newsletter by tag or keywords

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I am only just realizing how useful the Newsletter function is, and for me it would be very much more useful if it could choose recipients by using Tags or keywords.
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Re: Choosing contacts for Newsletter by tag or keywords

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Got it about tags. Although, please explain what you mean by saying "keywords".
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Keywords would be using the Search function and finding a group from the result.
Useful if Tags have not been set up for all contacts but the keyword occurs in Contact Notes or adress, (a postcode for instance).
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Re: Choosing contacts for Newsletter by tag or keywords

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Contact groups are available from the drop down list when choosing recipients.
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Thanks, I do use this, but I thought it could be useful to search for a keyword like part of a postcode to choose contacts from a particular area.
It didn't seem to be possible to produce a search result like this, and use the contacts for a newsletter.
I have come up with a workaround now though - Search, highlight all, ctrl drag into a temporary new group and then delete the group after it had been used for the newsletter.
Sorry I hadn't thought of it before!
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I see what you mean. In this case we should probably enhance the Find option in the "Add/Remove Recipients" dialog window so that it searches across all the data fields in contacts.
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Re: Choosing contacts for Newsletter by tag or keywords

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That would be very useful if you have time. I realize there might not be a huge demand for it.
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