Mass insert to contact groups

Hi All,
I am trying to create a contact group for sending a mass text message.
I would like to select mutiple contacts to insert into the group rather than inserting 200+ contacts one at a time, but this does not seem to be an option.
I have tried to do this on the blackberry, or on Outlook with the idea of transferring the group to the Blackberry, but neither method seems to be viable.
Any ideas?

what didn't make sense?
create a group or several groups or add to those groups in gmail contacts on your home computer & it will sync to the phone.
have you even tried to add a group in gmail contacts, as described, to see if it really works?
info is provided of how to do things, what you do/don't do with that info is up to you in terms of resolving problems or learning "how to".

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