Re: Lua-enabled Microsoft Outlook?

[Paul Chambers <lua@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> On 08/02/2009 22:10, Paul Chambers wrote:
> > Has anyone integrated Lua as a Microsoft Outlook add-in?
> > [...]
> > 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 :)
>
> It have been years since I last used Outlook... :-)
> So I can't tell for sure, but perhaps you can just export the list of 
> contacts to a textual format, process it, and import it back after 
> removing all contacts...
> After a backup, of course! ;-)
I'm no great advocate of Outlook, but unfortunately most of corporate 
America is still wedded to Exchange/Outlook. Love to see that change, 
but I'm not holding my breath.

Yep, I had been considering exporting it all to a CSV file and munging 
it that way. Though I'm a little concerned it may strip hidden metadata, 
which could trip up things like the Plaxo sync. Which ironically might 
generate more duplicates :)  It should work, with a little care.

Paul