How to hide an e-mail address from other recipients in Outlook 2000 (257599)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Outlook 2000
This article was previously published under Q257599
For a Microsoft Outlook 97 version of this article, see 257597.
For a Microsoft Outlook 98 version of this article, see 257598.
For a Microsoft Outlook 2002 version of this article, see 290858.

SUMMARY

In Outlook, you may want to send an e-mail message to more than one person but not want the recipients to know that other people are receiving the same message. This article describes how to hide e-mail addresses from other recipients.

MORE INFORMATION

To hide e-mail addresses from other recipients, type your address in the To field and the recipients' addresses in the Bcc field of the e-mail message:
  1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Mail Message.
  2. In the Untitled message, on the View menu, click Bcc Field.
  3. In the box next to Bcc, type the recipients' addresses.
NOTE: If a recipient uses Microsoft Outlook 97 with the original Internet Mail service, the contents of the Bcc field may be visible. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

167111 OL97: BCC List Included in Internet Mail Header

You can also use the Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Word to send an e-mail message to a group of contacts. Each recipient receives a message addressed individually. For additional information about sending broadcast mail, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

241825 OL2000: How to Broadcast Mail Using Outlook

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