That's the easiest scenario to handle, because Word is always the email editor in Outlook 2007:

Set objOL = Outlook.Application
Set objDoc = objOL.ActiveInspector.WordEditor
Set objWord = objDoc.Application
Set objSel = objDoc.Windows(1).selection
MsgBox objSel.Text

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Peter R." wrote in message ...

It´s Outlook 2007, it´s a received message in the Inbox.

A piece of tekst marked in a opened email message.

How do I get a marked piece of text in a email into a string in my VBA ?