Newbie Question

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green fox

I have never used VBA or Macros in Outlook (I have in Excel & Access).
I'm wondering if this is possible:

I have e-mails with requests for different dates. Some a single date,
others a string of dates.

I presume I would have to have a custom field filled out by the sender
with the dates delimited somehow, comma maybe so the code could read
them and connect them to the calendar so I can call up the date, and
have all the e-mails for that date printed.

Is this completely off-the-wall, or is it possible.

Ms. Mosher, does your book cover this sort of thing?

grateful for any response

Andy
 
The easiest way to handle this would be to store properly formatted dates in
the subject line, using delimiters for multiple dates.

However, if you do not have full control over that, than yes - a custom form
is the best approach. There are some special considerations to keep in mind
though when you send these forms over the Internet (which I'm assuming is the
case for you):

Sending Microsoft Outlook Forms over the Internet:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sendform.htm

Otherwise, one or more custom fields to store the dates is perfectly
feasible. Just remember that both the sender and receiver needs to have your
custom form published in either the Organization Forms or Personal Forms
Library.
 
Thanks,

Could you direct me to any internet resources that I can tap for some
sample routines/code?

thanks again,

Andy
 
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