In my company, we often replytoall and make our comments "in-line" - ie by
adding text next to the text of the original email. To make our comments
stand out, we laboriously highlight our comments and change the font color.
Several of us might do this, so we use several different colors. We are using
Windows XP and Outlook 2003 (not with Exchange, I should add).

I would like to add a new toolbar, which contains a number of buttons such
as "Reply-red", "Reply-Blue", "Reply-Green" and which appears when the user
opens an email. When the user clicks one of these buttons, a reply to the
email appears and any text typed in that reply comes out in the relevant
color.

Although I have written some pretty sophisticated macros in Word and Excel,
I find the outlook programming language very different and difficult. I don't
seem to be able to access the built-in dialog boxes, for example.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

The only way to reliably do this is to use Word as your e-mail editor and use
the Word Object Model to control formatting of the message body.

Much of what you see in the Outlook UI is not exposed via the Object Model,
and some settings are stored in the registry or file system. However, all
data you work with is accessible with VBA.

--
Eric Legault - Outlook MVP, MCDBA, MCTS (SharePoint programming, etc.)
Try Picture Attachments Wizard for Outlook:
http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca
Blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/


"Twotone" wrote:

In my company, we often replytoall and make our comments "in-line" - ie by
adding text next to the text of the original email. To make our comments
stand out, we laboriously highlight our comments and change the font color.
Several of us might do this, so we use several different colors. We are using
Windows XP and Outlook 2003 (not with Exchange, I should add).

I would like to add a new toolbar, which contains a number of buttons such
as "Reply-red", "Reply-Blue", "Reply-Green" and which appears when the user
opens an email. When the user clicks one of these buttons, a reply to the
email appears and any text typed in that reply comes out in the relevant
color.

Although I have written some pretty sophisticated macros in Word and Excel,
I find the outlook programming language very different and difficult. I don't
seem to be able to access the built-in dialog boxes, for example.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks