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Attaching an Outlook email into a cell
I use a 2003 Excel spreadsheet to monitor account moves within our company.
User experience with Excel varies from low to high. Many people are accessing the spreadsheet through SharePoint. Among the many pieces of information that is gathered is an Outlook email approval to move the account. This email approval needs to be referenced on the spreadsheet and allow other users to easily read through the email. Here are the solutions we have tried, but without much success. 1. Use a different tab for the email - Used a form field to place a scroll box where the contents of the email could be pasted. Difficult to maintain, especially to match up the line item on one sheet with the email section on the other. We also had difficulty in pasting and sometimes the form box would not accept the paste. Also, we had hundreds of email approvals from across the country, so we ended up with a ton of extra tabs to hold them all. Copying information from one sheet to another also ended up as tedious. 2. Comment box - this took care of the copying problem as well as the many tabs. Also became very handy because when you copying the whole line, the comments went with. No references to another tab. But, there is no scolling in comments and the type gets small. So this was an improved method, but still not quite there. In reading some other posts about this, I did try to export the email as embed it as a object, but I can see how my less knowlegable users may find that difficult and confusing. What I'm looking for is a easy way to attach/embed/include an email in a cell that is easily clicked on and read without making it too difficult for less experienced people. I can develop macros to help facilitate the process, but I really can't think of the best way to get Outlook and Excel talking in the same file. Any help would be most appreciated. |
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