March update to your Outlook junk email filter. Just a reminder that Microsoft now updates the spam filter in Outlook 2007 more often, with the latest released on 9 March 2010. You can download it from Microsoft or it may arrive via Windows/Microsoft Update. The update should help Outlook better tell the difference between spam […]
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 […]
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 […]
Q: Sanjay Singal wants to know how to send an attachment generated from Access data in an Outlook email message. A: Access Archon #148 deals with this topic (creating and mailing attachments in an email message). In this sample database, the values of various email message fields are picked up from a form. See Also […]
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 […]