Distribution Lists are created to make it easy to send one email to several recipients. These recipients would all have a common interest in the email that you are sending and are often therefore members of specific groups, regular meetings, committees, etc. But these groups can have finite life spans and you can find that you accumulate Distribution Lists that are out of date and defunct. To assist in identifying the current validity of your Distribution Lists, we will create a view of your Contacts folder showing the dates on which the Distribution Lists were created.

If you have a large number of Distribution Lists, you could either create a separate Contacts folder to store only Distribution Lists or use a view of your main Contacts folder that filters Distribution Lists. As Outlook does not provide a predefined view for Distribution Lists, the following custom view not only filters Distributions Lists but also includes the Created field to show the date on...