How to check an Outlook mail's *edit mode*?
 

Hi!


How to check if the ActiveInspector.CurrentItem is in *edit mode? (it's
only my terminology)

I would like to simply insert a text into the body of the currently
opened mail (by clicking a toolbar button).
But Outlook inserts the text regardless if it's in edit mode or not.
(And even it saves it without a prompt)
I can't find anything how to check this state.

The code is something like this:

30 Set objItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
40 Set objInsp = objItem.GetInspector
50 If objInsp.EditorType = olEditorWord Then
60 Set objDoc = objInsp.WordEditor
70 objDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.InsertAfter psText
80 Else
90 objItem.HTMLBody = objItem.HTMLBody & psText
100 End If

Thx


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How to check an Outlook mail's *edit mode*?
 

I don't know of a way to explicitly check for "edit mode" (aka compose
mode), but if you are working with a MailItem then objItem.Sent = False
means you have a new message, reply or forward that is editable. Outlook
does allow you to edit a message that you have received, so you can't assume
that objItem.Sent = True always means that your item is not being edited.

By the way, it would be more efficient to use
Set objInsp = Application.ActiveInspector
Set objItem = objInsp.CurrentItem

"N More" wrote in message
...
Hi!


How to check if the ActiveInspector.CurrentItem is in *edit mode? (it's
only my terminology)

I would like to simply insert a text into the body of the currently
opened mail (by clicking a toolbar button).
But Outlook inserts the text regardless if it's in edit mode or not.
(And even it saves it without a prompt)
I can't find anything how to check this state.

The code is something like this:

30 Set objItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
40 Set objInsp = objItem.GetInspector
50 If objInsp.EditorType = olEditorWord Then
60 Set objDoc = objInsp.WordEditor
70 objDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.InsertAfter psText
80 Else
90 objItem.HTMLBody = objItem.HTMLBody & psText
100 End If

Thx


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How to check an Outlook mail's *edit mode*?
 

What do you mean by "edit mode"? I can think of at least three possibilities:

An unsent item? Check the MailItem.Sent property's value.

An HTML or plain text format sent or received item where the user had use the Edit | Edit Message command to make the message editable? Check the Enabled property of the Edit Message command on the menu using CommandBars; see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/tips/commandbarfun.htm

An RTF message send or received, with Outlook configured to use Word as the editor? I'm not sure about that one. Maybe check BodyFormat and Inspector.EditorType.

--
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


"N More" wrote in message ...
Hi!


How to check if the ActiveInspector.CurrentItem is in *edit mode? (it's
only my terminology)

I would like to simply insert a text into the body of the currently
opened mail (by clicking a toolbar button).
But Outlook inserts the text regardless if it's in edit mode or not.
(And even it saves it without a prompt)
I can't find anything how to check this state.

The code is something like this:

30 Set objItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
40 Set objInsp = objItem.GetInspector
50 If objInsp.EditorType = olEditorWord Then
60 Set objDoc = objInsp.WordEditor
70 objDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.InsertAfter psText
80 Else
90 objItem.HTMLBody = objItem.HTMLBody & psText
100 End If

Thx


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