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- Subject: Lua-enabled Microsoft Outlook?
- From: Paul Chambers <lua@...>
- Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:10:23 -0800
New to the list, hope someone can help with a question.
Has anyone integrated Lua as a Microsoft Outlook add-in?
The reason I ask is that I have a largish number (5k+) of contacts,
almost all of which are duplicates. But not exact duplicates, various
things have been munged during syncing back and forth to devices and
services I've tried. The result is that the commercial duplicate removal
tools either:
a) don't see them as duplicates,
b) or worse, do see them as duplicates, but do a very poor job of
automatically merging them together (i.e. they lose or duplicate
information).
I suspect I can fix perhaps 75% of the duplicates with a little
scripting. But I don't have the time for, or interest in, becoming
proficient in Microsoft's technologies. (It'd be faster to merge them
all by hand :)
A little Googling turned up 'OutlookHooker'
(http://code.google.com/p/outlookhooker/) but if I understand the
overview correctly, it doesn't expose the Outlook object model to a Lua
script, only trigger scripts from Outlook events.
Has anyone fully 'Lua-enabled' Outlook? can anyone offer any other
insightful suggestions?
TIA,
-- Paul