Text messaging with Microsoft Outlook 2003

One of the advantages of using this add-in is that outgoing SMS messages can be managed through Outlook the same as e-mails: you can compose drafts of messages, save them, print them out, forward them as e-mail, or forward e-mails as SMS. The full range of existing Outlook and Windows tools can also be applied to SMS messages -- spell checking, copy-and-paste, and so on. Copies of sent SMS messages can also be saved and organized like e-mail.

Once installed, the add-in will create a new toolbar named "Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SMS Add-In" with a "New SMS Message" button on it. Click the button and you'll be prompted for a contact name or phone number (which you can look up in Outlook Contacts using the Mobile Phone field). Type the message in

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the "SMS Text" field, connect the phone to the PC and press Send (or hit Save to save the message in the Drafts folder).

The add-in has some limitations. It can't be used to manage incoming SMS messages, only to compose and send outgoing messages (although this may become possible in future versions). Only standard SMS message formats are supported -- Flash SMS and MMS will not work, nor will sending ring tones or graphics. Also, the add-in will not work with GSM phones that do not support the Protocol Description Unit (PDU) messaging standard.

Microsoft has the add-in available as a free (unsupported) download here.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is the editor of the Windows 2000 Power Users Newsletter and a regular contributor to SearchExchange.com.

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