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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / May 2006Changing Field Names
How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand, like "Employee #". If there is no way of changing some of the predefined fields how can I include my user defined fields when I link Outlook to Access? Presently when I link Outlook to my database my user defined fileds are not included as well as some other predefined fields, such as e-mail 2, that I would like to include. I'm trying to use Outlook contacts to store my personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries that I need. It is not possible to change the names of any properties in Outlook.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User > Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries > that I need. Is there anyway of includeing fields like e-mail2 into the link properties so that they show up in Access? > How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User > Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries > that I need. While articles have been written on how to expand the fields exposed in a linked table, I've never been able to duplicate the results. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/database.htm#linkedtables . That page will also give you other ideas on how to work with databases and Outlook together. You'll need to write code or use a third-party tool that does the heavy lifting. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Is there anyway of includeing fields like e-mail2 into the link properties so > that they show up in Access? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries >> that I need. |
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