Summary answers from what I think I understand of your
question:
#1 - Make changes apply to all contacts? Create a custom form
in Outlook and assign it to all contacts in the Outlook folder.
We supply a free utility for that on our website and there are
several other solutions available on
http://www.slipstick.com
#2 - Link Outlook to Access? Not thru any generic approach -
you'll need to write custom code for custom fields
#3 - Fields not the same - Outlook vs Access? Assume you're
referring to field names - would be handled by item #2
#4 - Exporting contacts from Outlook to Access? You'll need to
use a 3rd party product for any custom fields or write
you're own code. There's a quick 'n dirty "copy 'n paste"
method but viability may be a tad questionable depending
on number of fields for 2000 contacts.
In short - "Is this possible?" - depends on whether or not you
mean "Out of the box" or "with effort".
Karl
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"wahoo"
discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:52B9FE67-FD09-47EE-8861-65820246F3AD@microsoft.com...>I am working on a creating a database in Access. I will be exporting
>2,000+
> contacts from outlook into this Access database, however the fields are
> not
> the same. In the end I am hoping to link Outlook with this Access file,
> so I
> would like to completely customize the fields available in Outlook.
>
> Two questions:
> 1) Is this possible? (in Outlook 2003)
> 2) If this function is available, will I have to go into each of the 2,000
> contacts to customize the fields or is there a way to make the change
> apply
> to each of the existing and newly created contacts?
>
> Thank you!
