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Simon Kravis suggested the following workaround on Google's
microsoft.public.outlook list (http://tinyurl.com/db3mw):
"A clunky way is to export to Excel, then add a column for Received
Date, select all messages in the mail folder (ordered by date), copy to
clipboard and paste into Excel. The Received Date will then be present
as a column whose rows match up with the exported data. However, the
date format as pasted (e.g. Fri 29/1/2004 1:00 PM) is not interpreted by
Excel as a date. To make it interpreted as a date, remove the 1st 4
characters with the Excel Mid() function and use the excel Value
function to convert to Excel date format i.e. Value(Mid(A1,4,30)). Once
the column is converted to date format it can be copied into the
Received Date column of the exported data, or pasted into a new Access
field if the mail data has been exported there."
Good workaround. Thanks, Simon, wherever you are!
-- Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Goldstein
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:57 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Exporting Outlook folders
>
> Exporting Outlook 2003 folders (under Win XP Pro) to
> tab-separated TXT files. Does anyone know how to define the
> columns that are exported?
>
> Right now I get the following columns: Subject, Body, From
> (Name, Address, and Type), To, CC, BCC, Billing Information,
> Categories, Importance, Mileage, and Sensitivity.
>
> The exported columns don't match the columns selected for
> display in Outlook (View | Arrange By | Current View |
> Customize Current View...).
>
> What I really want is to include the Date and Time columns. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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