How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User
Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand,
like "Employee #". If there is no way of changing some of the predefined
fields how can I include my user defined fields when I link Outlook to
Access? Presently when I link Outlook to my database my user defined fileds
are not included as well as some other predefined fields, such as e-mail 2,
that I would like to include. I'm trying to use Outlook contacts to store my
personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries
that I need.

It is not possible to change the names of any properties in Outlook.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Dan" wrote in message ...
How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User
Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand,
like "Employee #". If there is no way of changing some of the predefined
fields how can I include my user defined fields when I link Outlook to
Access? Presently when I link Outlook to my database my user defined fileds
are not included as well as some other predefined fields, such as e-mail 2,
that I would like to include. I'm trying to use Outlook contacts to store my
personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries
that I need.

Is there anyway of includeing fields like e-mail2 into the link properties so
that they show up in Access?

"Dan" wrote:

How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User
Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand,
like "Employee #". If there is no way of changing some of the predefined
fields how can I include my user defined fields when I link Outlook to
Access? Presently when I link Outlook to my database my user defined fileds
are not included as well as some other predefined fields, such as e-mail 2,
that I would like to include. I'm trying to use Outlook contacts to store my
personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries
that I need.

While articles have been written on how to expand the fields exposed in a linked table, I've never been able to duplicate the results. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/database.htm#linkedtables .

That page will also give you other ideas on how to work with databases and Outlook together. You'll need to write code or use a third-party tool that does the heavy lifting.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Dan" wrote in message ...
Is there anyway of includeing fields like e-mail2 into the link properties so
that they show up in Access?

"Dan" wrote:

How do change the predefined field names in Outlook. Like User Field 1, User
Field 2, etc, to field names that everyone in my department will understand,
like "Employee #". If there is no way of changing some of the predefined
fields how can I include my user defined fields when I link Outlook to
Access? Presently when I link Outlook to my database my user defined fileds
are not included as well as some other predefined fields, such as e-mail 2,
that I would like to include. I'm trying to use Outlook contacts to store my
personnel information and then link it to Access for my tables and queries
that I need.