I have office XP 2003 and would like to know if I can use MS Access to open
MS Outlook data files. I like the whole way that contacts and calendar
events can be linked to each other and all of that with Outlook, but there
are lots of things I would be able to do if I could query that data w/
Access. In the File > Open dialog, the extensions of file types run off the
screen and you can't see all of the supported types. I also haven't had a
chance yet to find where Outlook stores its data and what the file
extensions are.

Thanks

To link to outlook simply click on the file menu and select get external
data, choose link tables. Then when the window opens choose Exchange() or
Outlook() from the file types. The wizard will walk you through the rest of
it. This allows you to link to outlook appointments, contacts, emails. You
will not have all of the capabilities that you have with outlook but this
will you get you started.

"John Nasta" wrote:

> I have office XP 2003 and would like to know if I can use MS Access to open
> MS Outlook data files. I like the whole way that contacts and calendar
> events can be linked to each other and all of that with Outlook, but there
> are lots of things I would be able to do if I could query that data w/
> Access. In the File > Open dialog, the extensions of file types run off the
> screen and you can't see all of the supported types. I also haven't had a
> chance yet to find where Outlook stores its data and what the file
> extensions are.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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