[AccessD] Outlook Question

[Rocky Smolin]

Doug:

Unfortunately it won;t let me get past that prompt for the exchange server
address.

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On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 10:55 AM <dw-murphy at cox.net> wrote:

> In Outlook go to Account Settings and delete the Exchange account and add
> Gmail account.
>
> Doug
>
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> Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 10:36 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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> Subject: [AccessD] Outlook Question
>
> Last year I abandoned Outlook along with my Beach Access Software website
> and domain and went to Gmail (resistance was futile. I was assimilated.)
>
> I got used to it so no worries there.
>
> Now I have a requirement from a client to create an email in Outlook from
> data in their database.  No problem.  Been there. Done that. The common
> parts of the automation code is copy and paste. However...
>
> When I run the program, I get an automation error - library not registered.
> I do have Outlook installed and I did add the Outlook 14 library to the
> references. But that's not the problem apparently. I tried re-registering
> the library using guidance from Google but the regsrvr says library not
> found - even though it is there in the right folder.
>
> It *might* have something to do with the fact that Outlook was last
> configured to use GoDaddy's server. So when I start Outlook I get a message
> that the connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be
> connected to complete this action.
>
> Then opens a dialog box prompting for Exchange Server (showing the previous
> now non-functional server address) and Mailbox.
>
> I suspect that the Library Not Registered thing is a consequence of being
> hooked to an exchange server that is no longer there for me.  But still I
> can't figure out how to tell Outlook this and then configure Outlook for
> Gmail so I can test this client's email automation thing I just wrote.  I
> don't need to send the email, just pop it up in Outlook so I can see that
> the formatting and data fields are all correct.
>
> Would uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2010 do this?  Or what's the
> shortest way to get where I'm trying to go here?
>
> MMMTIA
>
> Rocky
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