How to italicize the email entry in explorer window

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Sandeep K - 27 Jul 2009 13:16 GMT

Hi All,
I want to italicize the display of email item in explorer window. I am
unable to find any property of MailItem to help me in achieving that. Please
help me.

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 27 Jul 2009 14:40 GMT

You're not finding anything because there is no such property. Whether a
message appears in italics depends on the automatic formatting settings of
the current view and whether the message has properties that meet the
criteria of a formatting rule that involves italics. Automatic formatting
rules are exposed programmatically only in Outlook 2007.

> Hi All,
> I want to italicize the display of email item in explorer window. I am
> unable to find any property of MailItem to help me in achieving that. Please
> help me.

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Sandeep K - 28 Jul 2009 07:51 GMT

> You're not finding anything because there is no such property. Whether a
> message appears in italics depends on the automatic formatting settings of
> the current view and whether the message has properties that meet the
> criteria of a formatting rule that involves italics. Automatic formatting
> rules are exposed programmatically only in Outlook 2007.

Sue,
My addin is developed in C# and targeted for outlook 2007 and 2003 therefore
if outlook 2007 exposes such functionality than it is fine with me. Can you
let me know how can i achieve it?

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 28 Jul 2009 14:08 GMT

Take a look at the TableView.AutoFormatRules collection and the
AutoFormatRule object, which has Filter and Font properties to tell you what
condition results in what display font. The Outlook developer documentation
article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb176349.aspx explains a
bit more about how these rules operate.

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> > You're not finding anything because there is no such property. Whether a
> > message appears in italics depends on the automatic formatting settings of
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> if outlook 2007 exposes such functionality than it is fine with me. Can you
> let me know how can i achieve it?

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