How can I link an Excel cel with an Outlook contact?

I am creating a schedule data base using excel and I would like to link names
located in a cell with an outlook contact. The only info I can find is
linking with word and access as a hyper link. Can this be done?

This may or may not help, i found this for copying Outlook Data youmay be able to use some of it or it may give you an idea how they act together.....

Regards,
Simon

Dim strMessageBody As String
Dim strAttachment As String
Dim dtStartDate As Date
Dim dtEndDate As Date
Dim globalRowCount As Long

Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim xlSheet As Excel.Worksheet

Option Explicit

Sub Export()

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olSession As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olStartFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim olDestFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim strprompt As String
Dim recipient As String
Dim localRowCount As Integer


Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

'Initialize count of folders searched
globalRowCount = 1

' Get a reference to the Outlook application and session.
Set olApp = Application
Set olSession = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

' Allow the user to input the start date
strprompt = "Enter the start date to search from:"
dtStartDate = InputBox(strprompt, "Start Date", Now() - 7)

' Allow the user to input the end date
strprompt = "Enter the end date to search to:"
dtEndDate = InputBox(strprompt, "End Date", Now())

' UserForm1.Show


If (IsNull(dtStartDate) <> 1) And (IsNull(dtEndDate) <> 1) Then

' Allow the user to pick the folder in which to start the search.
MsgBox ("Pick the source folder (Feedback)")
Set olStartFolder = olSession.PickFolder

' Check to make sure user didn't cancel PickFolder dialog.
If Not (olStartFolder Is Nothing) Then
' Start the search process.
ProcessFolder olStartFolder
MsgBox CStr(globalRowCount) & " messages were found."
End If

xlApp.Quit

' strprompt = "Enter the recipient of the .html attachment in
[email protected] format: "
' recipient = InputBox(strprompt, "Recipient's email",
"[email protected]")

' DTSMailer strMessageBody, strAttachment
' DTSMailer commented out b/c no DTS package reference available
on Users machine.

' MsgBox "Email sent to " & recipient
MsgBox "Process is complete. Check K:\feedback\htm\ for available
files."

End If
End Sub

Sub ProcessFolder(CurrentFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder)

Dim i As Long
Dim ValidEmails As Long
ValidEmails = 0

For i = CurrentFolder.Items.Count To 1 Step -1
If ((CurrentFolder.Items(i).ReceivedTime >= dtStartDate) And
(CurrentFolder.Items(i).ReceivedTime < dtEndDate)) Then
ValidEmails = ValidEmails + 1
End If
Next

If CurrentFolder.Items.Count >= 1 And ValidEmails >= 1 Then

Dim localRowCount As Integer
Dim xlName As String

Set xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
Set xlSheet = xlBook.Worksheets(1)

localRowCount = 1
xlName = CStr(Format(dtStartDate, "MMDDYYYY")) & "_" &
CurrentFolder.Name & "_feedback"

xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 1) = "SUBJECT"
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 2) = "SENDER"
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 3) = "RECEIVED DATE"
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 4) = "MESSAGE BODY"


' Late bind this object variable,
' since it could be various item types
Dim olTempItem As Object
Dim olNewFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder


' Loop through the items in the current folder.
' Looping through backwards in case items are to be deleted,
' as this is the proper way to delete items in a collection.
For i = CurrentFolder.Items.Count To 1 Step -1

Set olTempItem = CurrentFolder.Items(i)

' Check to see if a match is found
If ((olTempItem.ReceivedTime >= dtStartDate) And
(olTempItem.ReceivedTime < dtEndDate)) Then
localRowCount = localRowCount + 1
globalRowCount = globalRowCount + 1
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 1) = olTempItem.Subject
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 2) =
olTempItem.SenderEmailAddress
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 3) =
CStr(Format(olTempItem.ReceivedTime, "MM/DD/YYYY"))
' Added this row of Code 4/3/06 jmr
xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 4) =
WorksheetFunction.Clean(olTempItem.Body)[/b]
' original code - commented out 4/3/06
' xlSheet.Cells(localRowCount, 4) =
Replace(Replace(Replace(olTempItem.Body, Chr(9), " "), Chr(10) & Chr(10),
Chr(10)), Chr(13), "")
End If

Next

readability_and_HTML_export
xlBook.SaveAs ("\\stm-fs1\marketing-shared\feedback\xls\" & xlName &
".xls")


ActiveWorkbook.PublishObjects.Add( _
SourceType:=xlSourceSheet, _
FileName:="\\stm-fs1\marketing-shared\feedback\htm\" & xlName &
".htm", _
Sheet:="Sheet1", _
Source:="", _
HtmlType:=xlHtmlStatic).Publish

' strAttachment = strAttachment &
"\\stm-fs1\finapps\dynamics\feedback\" & xlName & ".htm; "

xlBook.Save
xlBook.Close

End If

' New temp code - 040406

' Loop through and search each subfolder of the current folder.
For Each olNewFolder In CurrentFolder.Folders

Select Case olNewFolder.Name

Case "Deleted Items", "Drafts", "Export", "Junk E - mail", "Notes"
Case "Outbox", "Sent Items", "Search Folders", "Calendar", "Inbox"
Case "Contacts", "Journal", "Shortcuts", "Tasks", "Folder Lists"
Case Else
ProcessFolder olNewFolder

End Select

Next olNewFolder

' The next five lines are the original code

' Loop through and search each subfolder of the current folder.
' For Each olNewFolder In CurrentFolder.Folders
' If olNewFolder.Name <> "Deleted Items" And olNewFolder.Name <>
"Drafts" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Export" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Junk E -
mail" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Outbox" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Sent
Items" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Search Folders" And olNewFolder.Name <>
"Calendar" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Contacts" And olNewFolder.Name <>
"Notes" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Journal" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Shortcuts"
And olNewFolder.Name <> "Tasks" And olNewFolder.Name <> "Folder Lists"
And olNewFolder.Name <> "Inbox" Then
' ProcessFolder olNewFolder

' End If
' Next
End Sub


Private Sub readability_and_HTML_export()
'
' readability_and_HTML_export Macro

'
Cells.Select
Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit
Cells.EntireRow.AutoFit
Columns("A:A").ColumnWidth = 32
' Range("A1").Select
' Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
' Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select
Cells.Select
With Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlGeneral
.VerticalAlignment = xlTop
.Orientation = 0
.AddIndent = False
.IndentLevel = 0
.ShrinkToFit = False
.ReadingOrder = xlContext
.MergeCells = False
End With
Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalDown).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalUp).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeLeft).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeTop).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeBottom).LineStyle = xlNone
Selection.Borders(xlEdgeRight).LineStyle = xlNone
With Selection.Borders(xlInsideVertical)
.LineStyle = xlContinuous
.Weight = xlThin
.ColorIndex = xlAutomatic
End With
With Selection.Borders(xlInsideHorizontal)
.LineStyle = xlContinuous
.Weight = xlThin
.ColorIndex = xlAutomatic
End With
Range("A1:D1").Select
With Selection.Interior
.ColorIndex = 37
.Pattern = xlSolid
End With
Selection.Font.Bold = True
Columns("C:C").Select
With Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlLeft
.WrapText = False
.Orientation = 0
.AddIndent = False
.IndentLevel = 0
.ShrinkToFit = False
.ReadingOrder = xlContext
.MergeCells = False
End With
If Columns("D:D").ColumnWidth < 80 Then
Columns("D:D").ColumnWidth = 80
End If

If Columns("B:B").ColumnWidth > 40 Then
Columns("B:B").ColumnWidth = 40
End If
End Sub



'Private Sub DTSMailer(messagebody As String, attachmentstring As String)
Private Sub DTSMailer()
Dim oPKG As New DTS.Package

oPKG.LoadFromSQLServer "SQLServer", , , _
DTSSQLStgFlag_UseTrustedConnection, , , , "Feedback_Mailer"
oPKG.FailOnError = True

' oPKG.GlobalVariables.Item("messagebody") = messagebody
' oPKG.GlobalVariables.Item("attachmentstring") = attachmentstring

oPKG.Execute
oPKG.UnInitialize
Set oPKG = Nothing
End Sub

.... or you can use:

Application.Outlook.Getnames

This doesn't work, because I just made it up, but you must admit that
it's much simpler than Simon's method.

[sorry ... Just thought we all needed a laugh]


Greg

Well Greg just goes to show i haven't the foggiest what i'm doing which is why i use this forum................i was trying to give a little help to an unanswered post.............. maybe all that information was a bit overpowering!

Still it got him another response.....not quite what he was looking for but a response all the same.............are you sure that Application.Outlook.Getnames doesn't work?, it sounded bloody good, perhaps you missed your way!

Regards,
Simon