Christmas cards tracking

[Bob's Wife]

How can I use Outlook to track sending and receiving of Christmas cards every
year?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Are they email or snail mail cards?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Bob's Wife asked:

| How can I use Outlook to track sending and receiving of Christmas
| cards every year?

 

[SimonBDA]

For years I have used Excel as an address book with one extra column per
year, in which I enter an 's' for a card I have sent, and an 'r' for a card I
have received. I have 5 extra columns labelled X0 -> X4 for years 2000 to
2004, which I then re-use for years 2005-2009.
I've now imported the Excel file into Outlook 2003 and I'm moving fields X0
to X4 into the Outlook supplied fields "referred by", and "User 1-4"
inclusive. This seemd easier than creating new fields, though this is also
possible.

When you want to update the fields, you can either import and export between
Outlook & Excel , or you can define an Outlook form which gives you direct
access to these supplied fields.

Good luck - it worked for me, though I'm still figuring out how to validate
the data as being only characters 's' and 'r' in the Outlook fields.