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John Faughnan
When I drag an Outlook item (task, contact, etc) to the Journal icon,
Outlook 2003 creates a Journal entry with a reference to the dropped
item in the text field of the new Journal item. This is much better
for my purposes than creating a copy of the item. Even if I move the
referenced item around in a PST the reference still works (it cannot
cross PSTs).
If you drop multiple items, Outlook creates a single Journal entry
with multiple references.
I like this. I might be able to use Journal entries to manage
projects, referencing tasks, contacts, etc.
HOWEVER, once the Journal entry is created, I see no convenient way to
create references to additional items. Drag and drop to the Text area
only embeds a copy. I tried context dropping and modifier keys -- no
help. One can drag and drop to a Journal icon, then cut and copy the
references and paste them into a different Journal item -- but that's
kind of kludgy.
Does anyone know of a way to force Outlook to create a "reference"
rather than to embed a copy in the text field of a Journal item?
Perhaps someone has written a utility to do this.
Thanks!
john
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Outlook 2003 creates a Journal entry with a reference to the dropped
item in the text field of the new Journal item. This is much better
for my purposes than creating a copy of the item. Even if I move the
referenced item around in a PST the reference still works (it cannot
cross PSTs).
If you drop multiple items, Outlook creates a single Journal entry
with multiple references.
I like this. I might be able to use Journal entries to manage
projects, referencing tasks, contacts, etc.
HOWEVER, once the Journal entry is created, I see no convenient way to
create references to additional items. Drag and drop to the Text area
only embeds a copy. I tried context dropping and modifier keys -- no
help. One can drag and drop to a Journal icon, then cut and copy the
references and paste them into a different Journal item -- but that's
kind of kludgy.
Does anyone know of a way to force Outlook to create a "reference"
rather than to embed a copy in the text field of a Journal item?
Perhaps someone has written a utility to do this.
Thanks!
john
meta: jfaughnan, jgfaughnan, exchange, outlook, reference, copy,
embed, link, indirection, outlook 2003