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hlock - 18 Apr 2008 19:14 GMT

I've created a form called Budget Approval in a folder called Budgets in my
personal email. What is the best way to create a shortcut to this form and
folder?
Thanks!

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 18 Apr 2008 19:31 GMT

The best approach to making this form easy to launch is a macro, not a shortcut. To create a new instance of a custom form programmatically, use the Add method on the target folder's Items collection:

Set newItem = targetFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Post.YourFormName")

You can use the code at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getfolder.htm to walk the folder hierarchy and return the MAPIFolder corresponding to a given path string.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=56 for other ideas.

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> I've created a form called Budget Approval in a folder called Budgets in my
> personal email. What is the best way to create a shortcut to this form and
> folder?
> Thanks!

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