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Christopher Borchardt
2,908 PointsLanguage question
OK, i have an odd question. What I'd like to do is make a program, that will look in my outlook email for an email that always comes from the same source, with the same basic title. I want it to grab times from the email, and make calendar appointments that correspond to the times and dates on the email.
Basically I work at a call center, and every week we get an email with our scheduled break and lunch times. And i'd like to make a program to take those times and set up reminders for me on my outlook.
My question is, what language do you guys think would be the best to do something like this in?
1 Answer
Jamaal Todd
5,689 PointsHi Christopher,
It seems creating a script would be too much work. I think the easier option would simply to use outlooks 'create a rule', and apply that rule to re-direct all emails from that specific sender to a folder (eg. you could create a folder called "Break/Lunch times") and then have all future emails from that sender placed into that folder.
Then its just as easy to see all those emails in one place and, to then go into calendar and update it with the info etc.
Thanks J
Christopher Borchardt
2,908 PointsChristopher Borchardt
2,908 PointsI've done it for a while manually making and adjusting the calendar appointments, and its kind of a pain. I have an excel macro that somebody in the company wrote at one point that does basically this. the problem is there are changes that I'd like to make to it, but its password protected and the person who made it left the company a while ago.