Re Linking Outlook Task Items to Outlook Contacts

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Hi,
I have a lot of Outlook 2002 task items that I've linked to my Outlook contacts. Doing this, whenever I open one of my tasks I know who its for and can simply double click on the contact and go straight to their Contact form.

What's happened is that I've had to restore a backup pst file of my contacts so now the links from my tasks to the contacts have been broken and double clicking on the contact in the task form does nothing.

To re-link every task item would mean clearing the name in the Contacts field in the task item, retyping in the name and clicking check names. I have a few hundred task items and to do this for each one would take a long time. Is there a way of refreshing the links automatically using VBA?

I've tried writing my own VBA code but failed because I couldn't clear the name already in the Contacts field on the task form.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
The article at
http://www.exchangeadmin.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=22254 has a
reconnect script that should get you started.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Warren said:
Hi,
I have a lot of Outlook 2002 task items that I've linked to my Outlook
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contacts. Doing this, whenever I open one of my tasks I know who its for
and can simply double click on the contact and go straight to their Contact
form.
What's happened is that I've had to restore a backup pst file of my
Click to expand...
contacts so now the links from my tasks to the contacts have been broken and
double clicking on the contact in the task form does nothing.
To re-link every task item would mean clearing the name in the Contacts
Click to expand...
field in the task item, retyping in the name and clicking check names. I
have a few hundred task items and to do this for each one would take a long
time. Is there a way of refreshing the links automatically using VBA?
I've tried writing my own VBA code but failed because I couldn't clear the
Click to expand...
name already in the Contacts field on the task form.
 
Thanks Sue. With some changes I now have exactly what I need
I can't thank you enough
Regards
Warren.
 
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