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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Programming VBA / February 2004add text at cursor position
hello how can a macro write some text at the current cursor position, i.e. when writing an email or editing a task? regards Simon You can try using SendKeys. However, if your macro is being fired by a toolbar button, the cursor will have left the text area. You'd have to try sending TAB keys to get the cursor into the proper position, and then send a specified string to that area. A cleaner approach would be to just write the text to the assumed area using the Outlook Object model - the To or Body properties for example.  SignatureEric Legault - B.A, MCP, MCSD, Outlook MVP Job: http://www.imaginets.com Blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault > hello > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > regards > Simon Hi Eric! "Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]" <elegaultZZZ@REMOVEZZZmvps.org>wrote: > You can try using SendKeys. However, if your macro is being fired by a > toolbar button, the cursor will have left the text area. You'd have to try > sending TAB keys to get the cursor into the proper position, and then send a > specified string to that area. certainly... but I'd put it on a keyboard-shortcut > A cleaner approach would be to just write the text to the assumed area using > the Outlook Object model - the To or Body properties for example. How can I access that Outlok Object Model? Is there a SDK or tutorial? Thanks Simon By keyboard shortcut, do you mean adding the & identifier within the toolbar button name so that it can be activated by ALT+letter? That might be a problem, because then that button will have focus and you may not be able to get the focus back to the text box that requires the focus. Give it a shot though, it might work. If you are talking about assigning Outlook functions to a particular keyboard stroke(s), like you can in Word - you can't do that in Outlook unfortunately. For best information on the Outlook Object Model, use the Object Browser in the Outlook VBA IDE (Alt+F11, then F2), or reference the VBAOL10.chm file (number depends on version) in your Office installation directory. More info on Outlook VBA: http://www.slipstick.com/dev/vb.htm http://www.outlookcode.com/ SignatureEric Legault - B.A, MCP, MCSD, Outlook MVP Job: http://www.imaginets.com Blog: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault > Hi Eric! > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Thanks > Simon |
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