This should help you get started with Quick Parts if you want to use them in email messages: http://turtleflock-ol2007.spaces.liv...E3D8!158.entry

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and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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"Peter K" wrote in message ...
Thxs, your suggestions send me back to the drawing board. In particular the
'send to mail recipient' part might make the writing in Word practical.

The macros are for specific foreign language characters, like alt & e
produces the Euro symbol €, alt & a the German Umlaut ä, etc.

Am not familiar with QuickPart & will look into it.

Thxs again, Peter K

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

In writing email in foreign languages I have used for ten years or so a set
of macros, assigned to keystrokes, written in Word & therefore available in
Outllook. too.

You didn't say what these macros do. Maybe it's something a QuickPart can handle.

What is the purpose of Normalemail.dotm, if not to serve as a template for
email?

A template is a lot more than macros. My hunch is that there would be security issues involved in allowing macros from NormalEmail.dotm to run against an Outlook message.

How can one then build such macros and assign them to keystrokes in Outlook?

You can write them in Outlook VBA, but Outlook has no keystroke assignment capability.

Currently I write my email in Word & then copy it into Outlook, but, that is
certainly not a permenent solution.

Why copy? Modify the Quick Access Toolbar to add the Send to Mail Recipient command, found under All Commands. That makes it very easy to write the content in Word, then add the mail details.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Q1: No. Word macros recorded in NormalEmail.dotm are not available to Outlook.

"Peter K" wrote in message ...
Q 1:
I have been able to load my macros with keyboard assignments from Office XP
into NormalEmail.dotm, but, they do not execute when writing email in
Outlook. The identical transfer to Normal.dotm was successfull in activating
them in Word.

Anything I have to change?

Q 2:
Not successfulll above, I tried to write macros directly in Outlook. I
could not find a way to r4cord macros in Outlook, nor any assignment to
kystrokes.

Are either of these 'known issues' or am I doing something wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.

Peter K

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