Click on the people icon at the bottom left hand corner of the Outlook application to enter into your personal contacts.

On the home tab select New Contact Group.

Create a name for your distribution list. In this case we'll use the name "My Distribution List".

Click the option to Add Members and then select the type of attendee you wish to add:

1. "From Outlook Contacts" – select from a person within your personal contacts
2. "From Address Book" – NYSERDA employees
3. "New E-mail Contact" – Manually enter an email address book 

Select Save & Close. 

Open a new email in the To field put in your distribution list. 

If you click on the + sign on the name you will see that it expands to show all the names within your distribution list.