Cursor location in email item?

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Bob Bridges

I do a respectable amount of coding in VBA/Access and /Excel, but hardly any

(so far) in Outlook. From the little bit of research I did today, Outlook is

a very different animal. Is there a user's guide or text that I should

tackle before doing anything serious in VBA/Outlook?

Specifically what I'm looking for is the location of the cursor. I have in

mind writing a subroutine that identifies the entire paragraph in which the

cursor is locating it, and setting certain formatting (typeface, size, color)

for the entire paragraph. I'll be using HTML and I've a little familiarity

with the DHTML object model, but the cursor location is eluding me so far.
 
Outlook itself doesn't support that. But if Word is the email editor, you

can use the Word object model: The Inspector.WordEditor property returns a

Word.Document object.

Best regards

Michael Bauer

Am Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:16:01 -0800 schrieb Bob Bridges:


> I do a respectable amount of coding in VBA/Access and /Excel, but hardly

any
> (so far) in Outlook. From the little bit of research I did today, Outlook

is
> a very different animal. Is there a user's guide or text that I should
> tackle before doing anything serious in VBA/Outlook?

> Specifically what I'm looking for is the location of the cursor. I have

in
> mind writing a subroutine that identifies the entire paragraph in which

the
> cursor is locating it, and setting certain formatting (typeface, size,

color)
> for the entire paragraph. I'll be using HTML and I've a little

familiarity
> with the DHTML object model, but the cursor location is eluding me so far.
 
In the future, please give your Outlook version, because there are

significant differences between versions. Michael's advice applies to

Outlook 2007 and also Outlook 2003 with Word as the email editor. For

Outlook 2003 with the built-in editor, see

http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=1358 for a code sample that

shows how to work with the HTMLDocument and its Selection.

Sue Mosher

"Bob Bridges" <rhbridg.RemoveThisNode@attglobal.net> wrote in message

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> I do a respectable amount of coding in VBA/Access and /Excel, but hardly
> any
> (so far) in Outlook. From the little bit of research I did today, Outlook
> is
> a very different animal. Is there a user's guide or text that I should
> tackle before doing anything serious in VBA/Outlook?

> Specifically what I'm looking for is the location of the cursor. I have
> in
> mind writing a subroutine that identifies the entire paragraph in which
> the
> cursor is locating it, and setting certain formatting (typeface, size,
> color)
> for the entire paragraph. I'll be using HTML and I've a little
> familiarity
> with the DHTML object model, but the cursor location is eluding me so far.
 
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