on 12/9/04 9:02 PM, Rick Roberts at fwroberts at mac.com wrote: > On Dec 9, 2004, at 10:10 AM, JoAnn Lawrence wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I¹m hoping someone out there has had experience with importing a > comma-delimited file into Microsoft Outlook. My problem is that when I import > an email address it does not appear as an address when I try to send a global > email from the contact folder it¹s in unless I open up the contact record, > delete the email address, undo the delete (to pop the email address back into > its field) and then save and close. When I import over a hundred names and > email addresses from my FileMaker database in this way, it¹s a hassle to go > into every record and refresh the email address (so to speak) in this way. > Does anyone else have any experience with importing email data from FileMaker > into Outlook without having to go through this extra step? > > > > Thanks in advance for any insights. > > JoAnn Lawrence Joann: You might save yourself a great deal of trouble (what you are describing here) but simply emailing directly from the database. There are a couple of easy plug-ins for FMP that let you do that. We use SMTPit for all our solutions. Kevin *********************************************************************** Kevin J. McAllister, President/CEO inRESONANCE ... Ideas that resonate kevin at inresonance.com | Professional CMS websites for K-12 http://www.inresonance.com | Strategic consulting, training 413-587-0236x13 FSA Member since 1994| Education database solutions