Thanks Sue, works like a charm.
> Take a look at the new PropertyAccessor object in Outlook 2007. There are a number of articles in Help that explain how to use it to add custom properties, both those that can be visible to the user and those that aren't.
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> Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
> Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
> Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
>
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
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> "Guy" <Guy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D67A6D42-C5D9-4247-BA80-5C45A989A822@microsoft.com...
> > Sorry but a relative newbie when it comes to Outlook programming.
> >
> > Currently using Office 2007. From Access I create an appointment - A
> > Delivery or Collection Docket - in a public Outlook folder using Automation.
> > The docket (body of the appointment) contains information such as customer
> > and delivery addresses, contact details including phone number, equipment to
> > be
> > delivered/collected, any special instructions and space for driver and
> > customer signatures.
> >
> > The appointments/dockets are subsequently tracked by the van driver manager
> > and printed using the default memo style by our van drivers.
> >
> > This all works fine, however, I would like to store private/hidden
> > application data that isn't shown in the subject or body of the appointment
> > (and therefore isn't easily modifiable by the user) such as the database
> > table record id. Then at some point in the future I would like to loop though
> > the Outlook appointments and retrieve this information to perform some
> > additional KPI processing.
> >
> > Can you help?
> >
> > Guy
>
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