Question about Outlook Express

With my hotmail account, I was able to forward messages to my contacts by clicking on "contacts", and a drop-down menu would appear so I could check the people I wanted to foward the message to.  How can I do this with the new Outlook?  Why am I getting just a short list of the people I most frequently email (which actually isn't accurate anyway)?  Why not everybody?  Am I going to have to put in the names one by one in order to forward a message?  This would be so burdensome!  Please help.  Thanks.