# Can MS Outlook help me write meeting minutes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-ms-outlook-help-me-write-meeting-minutes/232738>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 5, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-ms-outlook-help-me-write-meeting-minutes/232738 "2004-03-05T19:00:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpgoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@cpgoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cpgoose)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-ms-outlook-help-me-write-meeting-minutes/232738/1 "2004-03-05T19:00:10Z")

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Hi…any ideas any has would be great. I was just curious if something like this would be possible.

At my job, we have a weekly meeting. At the meeting, we go over issues that are currently opened. Each issue is tracked in a database, so we update the issues in the meeting, until they are “closed” or “resolved”. Anytime an update is made to the issue, I receive an email with the issue’s summary, as well as the update. So, when I get back to my desk, I have about 30 emails with the updates that we did.

Then, I get to write the minutes from the meeting (in a Word document), basically describing the issues that we went over, and their status or update. So basically, I can grab everything I need write from the email.

What I’m curious about is if there is someway to have the emails automatically export the part of the email that I need to a word document, and kind of have it write the minutes on its own? Maybe like a macro or something? I looked at the “rules” wizard in outlook, and it doens’t seem to handle something that specific.

Any ideas? 🙂