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# Characters In Contact "Notes" Field
It appears that something like 1028 to 4096 characters are accepted in the
Notes field for a given contact. Why is it then, that on File.Exporting the contact list, only 255 characters appear in the Notes field? (Better yet, how to export them all?) My particular application is that I want to add the same text string to all my contacts' Notes fields, and thought I could do this easily in Excel and then re-import. Unfortunately the export process is losing data big time! Any suggestions from knowledgeable MVPs? Thanks in advance! -- Paul |
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That's all that exports. If you want to append a string to every contact, you'll need to write a little VBA routine to modify the Body property. The sample at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/convertfields.htm shows how to modify items in a contacts folder.
-- 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 "Paul Travis" wrote in message ... It appears that something like 1028 to 4096 characters are accepted in the Notes field for a given contact. Why is it then, that on File.Exporting the contact list, only 255 characters appear in the Notes field? (Better yet, how to export them all?) My particular application is that I want to add the same text string to all my contacts' Notes fields, and thought I could do this easily in Excel and then re-import. Unfortunately the export process is losing data big time! Any suggestions from knowledgeable MVPs? Thanks in advance! -- Paul |
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