Search Corporate Email contacts but do not import

[kyle smith]

New to access. Very new to VB. really just working in the GUI right now. Hope to pick up some useful coding along but dont have enough hours to learn it well. I work for a large company, whose contact directory in outlook is enourmous (thousands of employees). Outlook currently manages its contact directory very efficiently. its very easy to search and email individuals. In my access database I would like to be able to have that same functionality. To pull contacts from outlook via a search, without actually importing outlook contacts.

I am designing a database for asset tracking of Lab equipment. Lab equipment gets borrowed or relocated frequently and I would like to assign a name/phone/email quickly and without error, when I need to input a record of equipment movement.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[orange]

see this link
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/ac...010282075.aspx

and
http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_...sets/index.htm