That makes sense - thanks for your help

>>Tamar
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>>Thanks for the answer
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>>I may have expressed myself badly but I need to be able to export only those contacts which are in a given distribution list
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>In that case, I'd loop through the members in the distribution list and access the contacts that way. Distributions lists are a little tricky because they don't have a collection of their members. Instead, you use the GetMember method to get to each item.
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>Let me know if that doesn't give you enough info to put some code together.
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>Tamar