Can Outlook Address Book be an Excel Data Source

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Jim Walsh - 04 Dec 2006 00:32 GMT

I know that the Outlook Address Book can be used as a database source for
mail merge in Word & Publisher.

I would expect that Excel would also have access to that address book via
its Data Import External data capability. But, I don't know how to set that
up.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 04 Dec 2006 02:05 GMT

Are you aware that there is no Outlook Address Book? It is simply a view of
Outlook's Contacts Folder. You can certainly export your Contacts Folder to
an Excel file if you want.

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Russ Valentine
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>I know that the Outlook Address Book can be used as a database source for
>mail merge in Word & Publisher.
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> Thanks,
> Jim

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Jim Walsh - 04 Dec 2006 19:52 GMT

Hi Russ,

Yes, I kind of knew that "Address Book" was one view of a Contacts Folder.

But, my question is about some interface from Excel into Outlook Contacts
folder. Maybe something like ODBC, or OLE DB, etc. Both Word and Publisher
seem to have some kind of access in which the user can make selections about
what actually gets imported. Do you know of anything like that for Outlook
contacts <--> EXCEL?

Jim

> Are you aware that there is no Outlook Address Book? It is simply a view
> of Outlook's Contacts Folder. You can certainly export your Contacts
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>> Thanks,
>> Jim

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 04 Dec 2006 21:29 GMT

Only Outlook's Export Wizard, which certainly allows you to customize what
fields are exported to Excel.

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> Hi Russ,
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Jim

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