Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming

Chapter 24. Generating Reports on Outlook Data

If any single area of Outlook falls short, it’s printing and reporting. Outlook’s built-in ability to regurgitate its data—either as printed reports or as files in other formats—is very limited. For example, when you use Outlook’s File, Import and Export command, you cannot export user-defined fields, and some useful standard fields don’t export at all! Furthermore, there is no method for printing a legacy custom form or form region in a format that resembles the on-screen form. An individual item always prints in Outlook’s memo style, which produces a simple list of fields. Any custom fields print in alphabetical order.

Because of these major limitations, being able to extract Outlook data into some ...