Outlook should allow conversion of Email text to a Calendar entry

[Guest]

I get a lot of emails in Outlook alerting me to upcoming meetings with the
time, date, place, etc. It would be nice to highlight the relevant text, and
have a wizard automatically sift through the text, pick out the salient
details, and convert the text to a new item in my Outlook calendar. As it is,
I have to do a lot of copying and pasting. This would save time.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Why not just right click and drag the email to the calendar and select "copy
here as appointment with text?"

Alternatively, write a little code that you can run on these items to pull
the information and populate an appointment item.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, settlit asked:

| I get a lot of emails in Outlook alerting me to upcoming meetings
| with the time, date, place, etc. It would be nice to highlight the
| relevant text, and have a wizard automatically sift through the text,
| pick out the salient details, and convert the text to a new item in
| my Outlook calendar. As it is, I have to do a lot of copying and
| pasting. This would save time.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...07104&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring