Creating Contact Items from Word Form Fields

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audrie magno - 24 Sep 2005 21:03 GMT

I have a form in Word that is used to collect data similar to that found in
Outlook Contact list. Notes: I cannot use InfoPath and yes there are a few
Custom Fields in the Outlook Contact list.

How can I push the form field values out to Outlook creating new contacts in
Outlook using VBA? I often find reference to Outlook to Word, and Outlook
to Excel, but I can't find anything on Word to Outlook code.

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Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook] - 26 Sep 2005 20:23 GMT

If you have the Word code to retrieve the information from the document to
push to Outlook, you're half-way there. The Outlook Object Model can be used
by any Visual Basic aware application. Here's a good example:

Automating Outlook from other Microsoft Office applications [Outlook 2003
VBA Language Reference] -- Outlook (Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Visual
Basic Reference):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbaol11/html/olconAutomatingOutlookFromO
therMicrosoftOfficeApplications_HV05273034.asp?frame=true

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> I have a form in Word that is used to collect data similar to that found in
> Outlook Contact list. Notes: I cannot use InfoPath and yes there are a few
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> Outlook using VBA? I often find reference to Outlook to Word, and Outlook
> to Excel, but I can't find anything on Word to Outlook code.

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