Can you import email addresses to outlook from Access?

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I am trying to find out if you can import your contacts and email addresses
from an Access database into Outlook.
 
AV49085 said:
I am trying to find out if you can import your contacts and email
addresses
from an Access database into Outlook.
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You certainly can - must be in 97-2003 format though.
 
Two things to add to Gordon's reply..... when you map your email address
field (during the import process - you'll run across a button that says "Map
Custom Fields" which is where you manually map your fields) - be sure that
you expand the "Email" (or "Email 2" or "Email 3" - whichever one you want
to use) field and map your email address from MS Access to the Outlook
"Email Address" (or Email 2 Address etc) to avoid any potential problems.

This assumes that your email addresses are in the standard format
<[email protected]>. You do not and should not map anything to the <Email
Address Type> field which will be filled in automatically by Outlook.

Since you didn't mention your Outlook version - Outlook (any version
including '2007) only supports the .mdb (97-2003) format. An Access .accdb
(2007) file must be converted to .mdb or alternatively - export your table
from Access to a CSV file and import the CSV file into Outlook instead.

Karl

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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer/DataPorter/Exporter/Toolkit
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