Where would I find programming documentation how Outlook defines what
duplicates are?

My goal is to synchronize the PST files between two laptops. However, I need
to have a clear idea how Outlook handles duplicates. This would also include
how Outlook handles the items in the Activities tab.

Your feedback is appreciated.

Where would I find programming documentation how Outlook defines what
duplicates are?

That behavior is not documented.

how Outlook handles the items in the Activities tab.

Outlook generates the Activities list by performing an on-demand search in the folders of the specified activities group for items containing a link in the Links collection to the current contact or one of the contact's email addresses in the To or From field. Note that copying an item to another .pst file would break any links in the Links collection.
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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

"John" wrote in message ...
Where would I find programming documentation how Outlook defines what
duplicates are?

My goal is to synchronize the PST files between two laptops. However, I need
to have a clear idea how Outlook handles duplicates. This would also include
how Outlook handles the items in the Activities tab.

Your feedback is appreciated.

So this would mean that the only way to synchronize the activities list
between two laptops is through the Exchange Server?

Does the Exchange Server handle the synchronization correctly or does
Exchange Server have some issues having this work?

Thank you for the feedback.

When importing items (journal entries, email messages, appointments) would
there be a way to get Word to rebuild links where a contact exists in the
importing PST?
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

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"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Where would I find programming documentation how Outlook defines what
duplicates are?

That behavior is not documented.

how Outlook handles the items in the Activities tab.

Outlook generates the Activities list by performing an on-demand search in
the folders of the specified activities group for items containing a link in
the Links collection to the current contact or one of the contact's email
addresses in the To or From field. Note that copying an item to another .pst
file would break any links in the Links collection.
--
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

"John" wrote in message
...
Where would I find programming documentation how Outlook defines what
duplicates are?

My goal is to synchronize the PST files between two laptops. However, I
need
to have a clear idea how Outlook handles duplicates. This would also
include
how Outlook handles the items in the Activities tab.

Your feedback is appreciated.

So this would mean that the only way to synchronize the activities list
between two laptops is through the Exchange Server?

That would certainly be the easiest way, but not the only way. It would be possible for a synchronization utility to relink most contacts, but I don't know of any commercial tools that do that.

Does the Exchange Server handle the synchronization correctly or does
Exchange Server have some issues having this work?

Exchange has no issues because the data is essentially identical on both machines.
--
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

Yes, it's possible to write VBA code to look at each Link.Name in an item's Links collection, search for a matching contact, create a new link, and delete the old.

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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

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ...
When importing items (journal entries, email messages, appointments) would
there be a way to get Word to rebuild links where a contact exists in the
importing PST?

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...

Outlook generates the Activities list by performing an on-demand search in
the folders of the specified activities group for items containing a link in
the Links collection to the current contact or one of the contact's email
addresses in the To or From field. Note that copying an item to another .pst
file would break any links in the Links collection.

Thank you.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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Yes, it's possible to write VBA code to look at each Link.Name in an item's
Links collection, search for a matching contact, create a new link, and
delete the old.

--
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

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
...
When importing items (journal entries, email messages, appointments) would
there be a way to get Word to rebuild links where a contact exists in the
importing PST?

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...

Outlook generates the Activities list by performing an on-demand search in
the folders of the specified activities group for items containing a link
in
the Links collection to the current contact or one of the contact's email
addresses in the To or From field. Note that copying an item to another
.pst
file would break any links in the Links collection.