Utilities for Microsoft's Outlook 2007©
We have seen that many business users do not know how to export and share the information they have accumulated in Outlook. The Outlook Personal Folders are binary and not readable by most programs. Microsoft plans to give programmers access to these folders in the future. Our first utility extracts the contacts from Outlook 2007 with the click of a button and puts in contacts in a database which can be searched and shared by many commonly used business programs such as Microsoft Word©, Access© and Excel©. It is important for users to be able to access their data freely and our program does that for the contacts stored in Outlook.
Our next utility will extract the inbox email messages and their attachments. The emails database will include 43 information fields plus the attachment file names and internet header. This is more information than the average user is aware of and a perfect way to comply with legal requirements to maintain a record of emails. The attachment files will be stored in the same directory as the Microsoft Access© database. The user will be able to search the database for emails and read them from within the program.
Systems administrators could take these individual databases and attachment files and merge them into a corporate database.
We plan to take the same approach with the Sent emails and calendar if there is enough interest.
Contacts Database
Outlook 2007 has 65 usable fields for contacts. Our utility captures all of them and presents them to you in a easy to read Windows Form (see below). The information in Outlook is not altered at any time and the information presented in our application is read only. All contact additions and editing take place in Outlook. The user can refresh the database at any time.
Our program, Contacts Database, installs into folder C:\Program Files\Small b Systems\Contacts Database\ and C:\OutLookDB\ where Outlook2007Contacts.mdb database is created to hold the contacts extracted from Outlook 2007. This is an Microsoft Access© 2000 database which can be read by Micorsoft Office Access©, Excel©, Word© and Microsoft SQL Server© to name only a few. We do not make any entries into the Windows Registry. The program has it's own uninstall program.
Please try this program before buying. There is a FREE TRIAL VERSION that is fully functional but limits the contacts extracted to 100.
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