How to ensure Access Watch isn’t mistakenly marked as spam in Outlook. Sometimes Office Watch newsletters end up in the Junk Email folder, it might seem like a conspiracy by Microsoft but it’s probably not. You can tweak the Outlook spam filter to ensure Access Watch isn’t mistakenly marked as spam — but it’s not […]
How to export information from a current record of an Access form to make a new Outlook appointment. Q: Martin Wichmand writes: “In my planner I have a Subject, Startdate, StartTime and Endtime. Normally I import those to Outlook via the slow and manual way. But I wonder if it is possible to send those […]
From: Bill Coan New freeware tool helps you unlock the data in your Microsoft Office XML files and other XML files As Microsoft Office XML files and other XML files proliferate, the amount of data stored in those files grows larger by the day. But did you realize that the XML Path Language (more commonly […]
How to export contacts from an Access table to an Outlook folder. Q: Farouk Dawood has written code to export contacts from an Access table to an Outlook folder, using the CreateItem(olContactItem) syntax, but it isn’t working – the new contacts are being created in the default local Contacts folder instead. What is the syntax […]
How to synchronize Access and Outlook – a more advanced lesson. Q: Jim Brooking writes that he is trying to use my Code Sample #49 for synchronizing Access and Outlook contacts, but it doesn’t do all that he wants, in particular two-way synchronizing. A: My Code Sample #49 dates from about 10 years ago, when […]