Linking Access to Outlook Contacts

[Tony Turner]

Hi I hope someone can help here.
I am trying to link an Access database to Contacts in Outlook.
I click on Get External Data - Link Tables. Choose Outlook as data type and
then select Contacts. Everything comes across apart from Categories.
Unfortunately this is one of the fields we must have.
Is there anyway of brining this across?
Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The linked table method has major limitations, including the inability to show even all the reasonably important fields. While articles have been written on how to expand on this method's obvious features, I've never been able to duplicate the results. See http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=25 .

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.

 

[Tony Turner]

Thanks Sue.
I had a feeling this would be a problem.