I have a thousand names in Contact List. I have several hundred in a
distribution list created from Contact list. I want to export the
Distribution List info to Excel. I tried saving as .txt, but only the name
and email address is saved in the text file. If I click on a name in the
distribution list, I get the full contact info

Short answer: no - there is no function available to export "PDL (Personal
Dist List) "contact details". Technically, PDL contact details include only
name and email address.

Some background trivia re: PDL info

In simplistic terms, the DL only maintains name and email address along with
a pointer to either a contact record in any contact folder (if applicable)
or to the Exch GAL (Global Address List) (also...

Ugh. That's a shame. Since the PDL obviously links to the contact folder, you
would think someone would have written a routine which "fetches" the
associated contact data and adds it as columns to the excel export.

Since distribution lists were created to help manage smaller "bites" of huge
contact lists, it would make sense to be able to work within them more
readily.

"Karl Timmermans" wrote:

sbp discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

That's because Distribution Lists don't contain contact information. They
contain only the name and the address. You can't export what doesn't exist.

sbp discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Use categories instead.