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Linking Outlook with Access

Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:35:25

As I understand it, starting with Office 2000, Access came equipped with templates for linking the "contacts" or "address book" in OUTLOOK within Access; they would show up as a "linked" table. Access 97 does not have this feature, but a file you can download called wzmapi80.exe gives Access 97 this same capabilitiy.

Observations so far:

  • The data is read-only; you can't change the contents of the contacts or address book within Access
  • You can't add or delete fields to the table

    Useful links which help with this topic include Slipstick.Com and this Microsoft article.

    . I also have included a Microsoft article regarding this, which you can read about here (it was derived from the previous link).