Create Directory Listing TEXT FILE

[Tio Pepe]

On this link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;282257
Microsoft shows how to use Outlook to print a directory
listing (contents of a folder) on a table format.

How can one get the equivalent text file to manipulate the
text entries on the table, for example cut and paste into
another Office Application?

I tried with Outlook to print to a file (it creates a PRN
file) and then open this PRN file with EXCEL to get the
table entries (which is exactly what I want to do!!) but
EXCEL does not properly opens the PRN file created by
OUTLOOK.

I have Office 2000 and Win98. Thanks for your help

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

How about... set up a view with the columns you want in the text file.
Select 1 item, then Select all (ctrl+a) then copy (ctrl+c) and paste into
notepad...

it should paste ok into Excel too, but to paste into word as a table, you'll
need to paste into notepad, copy and paste into word, otherwise it'll paste
the items thanks to OLE.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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