I would like to ask if email address in an MS Access DB can be imported into MS Outlook (preferably in contact groups defined in MS Access)? If so, how can this be done?
Thank you.
The preferred way to work with outlook items in Access, is through linked tables. Access can directly link to your outlook files.
Steps (Access 2016):
Go to External Data
Click New Data Source
Click form other sources
Choose Outlook folder
Choose Link the data source by creating a linked table
Choose the address book you want to link
Click Finish
You now have a linked outlook address book as a table. You can use normal action queries to insert into and update your address book.
To import a CSV of contacts into Outlook,
click File then Open & Export
click Import/Export and Import from another program or file
click Browse and locate your .csv file
You'll have the option to map custom fields -- in case you don't have them stored in a standard way (like this sample).
More:
Import contacts Excel→Outlook
Outlook & CSV's
Adding a contact with VBA
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Only 3 of the 5 lists in my SharePoint Online Team site are visible in the "Add an existing list" dialog. If I try to add either of the other 2 using a SharePoint link (the URL to the list), I get the error:
"That link did not work because you either do not have access or it is unsupported."
Those two are lists that I exported directly from Access to SharePoint, the others I either created from scratch in SharePoint or based on an uploaded Excel file. I created and am the owner of the Team site. I tried exporting the linked table for one of the lists from Access to an Excel file, then created a new list based on the Excel file. I was able to add that list to a Teams tab! That is a workaround, but it will entail a lot of work to re-do or copy over all of my formatting and views from the other list. I tried to find any settings, permission or otherwise, on the list that would fix it, but I am stumped.
Is there a way to modify this list from Access so that it can be added to a Teams tab?
I am attempting to set up a way to take invoices that are emailed to me and import them into MS Access so that I can track completion of payment and vouchering and at a later time set up a better system for accounts payable.
I have been researching how to go about linking outlook and access for this purpose but I don't actually get the attachment when I link a folder with my database. I have found people suggesting that I don't actually save the file to access because it will bloat the database and instead just save the file location.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find information about how to actually go about this process. Right now I have rules set up in Outlook to sort the invoices I receive by vendor, which I could then link to access. But there is no information regarding the attachment except that it has one.
Any pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated, I get the feeling that a lot of this will need to be done in outlook somehow, but I don't really know where to begin with it.
I can figure out how to save the attachments to a folder, but the thing I can't figure out is how to link outlook and access so that access can have a hyperlink to where the attachment is saved.
We have a access database split to front-end and back-end. How to link the back-end to sharepoint so that everybody can access it with their front-end desktop client?
I have created Sharepoint lists by exporting the database to sharepoint. I have also tried to import the lists into desktop access, but when I update the original tables, I do not see the changes reflected in the imported lists, or the lists on sharepoint.
What am I doing wrong, and is this the correct way of doing it?
In a new access file you should select:
External Data -> More (Under Important & Link) -> SharePoint List
Then make sure you pick "Link to the data source by creating a linked table." Follow the steps in the wizard and the new tables should appear yellow or gold in your access objects viewer (left hand side of main access screen)
If your data is not updating in the linked tables, you may need to select Refresh (or Refresh All) on the Home tab to make sure you have the most current data.
I have a quick question, is it possible to open a form created codes in access?
I have created my form but I can not find how to perceive its code in Visual Basic
Thank you for your reply
The only way I know is to export your form from access in an ASCII file, but this is not useful. Access forms are completely embedded in the mdb/accdb file and they need access executable to run. Usually you write events functions of the forms of your access project into the vba editor, but you can access properties and design details only from the design view.
I'm maintaining a VBA application in Access and a big part of this program is to make PDF's and email. I've already coded to create a PDF with PDF995, but the problem is that it keeps prompting where to save and a bunch of other questions.
Is there any solution that allows me to create PDF's in the background without prompting the user anything? I know where it needs to be saved, I know how it's going to be named, so that's not the problem.
Which Access version are you using?
In Access 2007 and above you can create PDF files out of the box, without stuff like prompting where to save.
Here's an example:
Execute Access 2007 Report and Export that Report to PDF Programmatically?
Note that in Access 2007, you have to install an add-in in order for this to work!
For Access 2003 and below, there's Steven Lebans' ReportToPDF.