Scanning E-mail for Certain words & changing the background

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Rhutch

Hello,

I have been asked to write a macro for Outlook that will scan an e-mail for

select words such as Voluntary, Surrender, etc. and then change the

background (highlight) those words found in an e-mail. I have used VBA in

Excel and Access but not in Outlook.

I looked through all 43 pages on the site and could not find a post to help.

Probably looked right past several.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

thanks,

rhutch
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP]

In what version of Outlook? Highlight those words in an open message? In the

reading pane?

Sue Mosher

"Rhutch" wrote:


> Hello,
> I have been asked to write a macro for Outlook that will scan an e-mail for
> select words such as Voluntary, Surrender, etc. and then change the
> background (highlight) those words found in an e-mail. I have used VBA in
> Excel and Access but not in Outlook.

> I looked through all 43 pages on the site and could not find a post to help.
> Probably looked right past several.

> Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

> thanks,
> > rhutch
 
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Rhutch

Sue:

I tried several times to log into the Community newsgroup but couldn't seem

to get the web page to display after attempting to log-on. I finally get it

to respond. I have read your response and hopefully can provide the

information you requested. I am using version 2003 of Outlook at work. The

intent, I think, is to open an e-mail and run a macro that looks for certain

words. Once it finds an occurrence of one of the words, it highlights it,

and changes the background to a different color, such as yellow, then

continues to the end of the e-mail. The person who asked me to do this for

him apparently gets several e-mails a day, 30 or so pages long and currently

has to go through them manually to find the designated words.

Hope you get this.

Thanks very much for responding,

rhutch

"Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:


> In what version of Outlook? Highlight those words in an open message? In the
> reading pane?
> > Sue Mosher
> > >

> "Rhutch" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I have been asked to write a macro for Outlook that will scan an e-mail for
> > select words such as Voluntary, Surrender, etc. and then change the
> > background (highlight) those words found in an e-mail. I have used VBA in
> > Excel and Access but not in Outlook.
> > I looked through all 43 pages on the site and could not find a post to help.
> > Probably looked right past several.
> > Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
> > thanks,
> > > > rhutch
 
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Rhutch

I was able to get some code that scans a Word document highlights a word the

user enters but it won't work on Outlook.

Sub FindRepetitiveWords()

'

' Find Repetitive Words Macro

' Macro recorded 11/6/2003 by Monica Burns

'//Get Info from User

'//Place information in variable sUserString and Insert into document

Dim sUserString As String

sUserString = InputBox("Please Enter The Word to Search For", "Word

Searching For")

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting

Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting

Selection.Find.Replacement.Highlight = True

With Selection.Find

> Text = sUserString

> Replacement.Text = sUserString

> Forward = True

> Wrap = wdFindContinue

> Format = True

> MatchCase = False

> MatchWholeWord = False

> MatchWildcards = False

> MatchSoundsLike = False

> MatchAllWordForms = False

End With

Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

End Sub

If anybody can point me to something that would show how to conver t it

Outlook, I would appreciated it.

thanks,

rhutch

"Rhutch" wrote:


> Sue:

> I tried several times to log into the Community newsgroup but couldn't seem
> to get the web page to display after attempting to log-on. I finally get it
> to respond. I have read your response and hopefully can provide the
> information you requested. I am using version 2003 of Outlook at work. The
> intent, I think, is to open an e-mail and run a macro that looks for certain
> words. Once it finds an occurrence of one of the words, it highlights it,
> and changes the background to a different color, such as yellow, then
> continues to the end of the e-mail. The person who asked me to do this for
> him apparently gets several e-mails a day, 30 or so pages long and currently
> has to go through them manually to find the designated words.

> Hope you get this.
> Thanks very much for responding,
> > rhutch

> "Sue Mosher [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > In what version of Outlook? Highlight those words in an open message? In the
> > reading pane?
> > > > Sue Mosher
> > > > > > > > "Rhutch" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I have been asked to write a macro for Outlook that will scan an e-mail for
> > > select words such as Voluntary, Surrender, etc. and then change the
> > > background (highlight) those words found in an e-mail. I have used VBA in
> > > Excel and Access but not in Outlook.
> > > > I looked through all 43 pages on the site and could not find a post to help.
> > > Probably looked right past several.
> > > > Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
> > > > thanks,
> > > > > > rhutch
 
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