Word template fetching data from Global Address List in Outlook

[Sina Bahrami]

Hi,

I am a reasonably experienced JavaScript / Flash ActionScript programmer,
but this is my first venture into the world of Visual Basic. I have been
given the task of creating a Word template that when opened, queries the
user the following information:

Who is the document written by? (One writer may have many people he writes
for)

Who is the document for?

And a few fields that are unique to each document. Now, ideally, the two
fields listed above will link up to data in the Outlook Global Address List
and fetch other details, like address and phone number, related to the names
given above. I imagine that when having queried the user for the fields, it
populates certain parts of the letter with the data.

The key is that everything that can be predetermined is done when the user
opens the template and that it is as quick/easy as possible and that all the
data is linked up with data from Outlook.

I am looking for a starting point or an overview of what I need to do to
make this happen. Perhaps maybe there are already templates like this ready
to be customised? Again, this is the first time I am doing this, so any help
would be appreciated.

sina

london

 

[Tarjei T. Jensen]

I am looking for a starting point or an overview of what I need to do to
make this happen. Perhaps maybe there are already templates like this ready
to be customised? Again, this is the first time I am doing this, so any help
would be appreciated.

Have you had a look at http://word.mvps.org/ ? It is really THE place to
start reading about Word VBA programming on the net.

As far as books on Word programming is concerned, I have no opinions since
the books I've ordered won't arrive until late February.

The books I've ordered are
Writing Word Macros - O'Reilly
VBA Developer's Handbook, 2nd Edition - Sybex


greetings,