I accidently deleted an entire distribution list in Outlook 2007.  I wanted 
to delete a single contact from the list and clicked on the "X" and my entire 
list was deleted with out prompting me if I wanted to delete it or a single 
contact from it.  I have checked my deleted items under the mail tab as well 
as my recyle bin and can not find the list.  I had over 150 people on the 
list.  How do I restore the entire list to my contacts?  If I can not restore 
the entire distribution list is there a way to recreate it by importing the 
contact from a prior email I sent to the list?

Thanks in advance for any assistance
Bill

What you did places the DL in the Deleted Items Folder. If you also deleted 
it from there, you'll need to restore it from your most recent backup.
A DL with 150 entries is a distinctly bad idea. A DL of that size will 
become corrupt very quickly and few mail servers permit that many recipients 
for a single message. You need to consider more reliable methods for 
grouping recipients (such as Categories) and better methods for sending to 
multiple recipients (such as mail merge to electronic mail)
-- 
Russ Valentine
"BillMac" <BillMac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>I accidently deleted an entire distribution list in Outlook 2007.  I wanted
> to delete a single contact from the list and clicked on the "X" and my 
> entire
> list was deleted with out prompting me if I wanted to delete it or a 
> single
> contact from it.  I have checked my deleted items under the mail tab as 
> well
> as my recyle bin and can not find the list.  I had over 150 people on the
> list.  How do I restore the entire list to my contacts?  If I can not 
> restore
> the entire distribution list is there a way to recreate it by importing 
> the
> contact from a prior email I sent to the list?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance
> Bill