How to insert text at cursor position in mailitems body

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Frank M - 05 Jan 2005 00:31 GMT

Via the body property of the Mailitem object you can manipulate the text of
the mailbody. I am wondering, however, if it is possible to insert text at
the current position of the cursur in the mail body.
This is relevant when your application first create the mail and opens the
mailwindow for the user, let them write the general mail and then finally
have options through your application to insert different texts according to
the user's choice in your application window.

Best regards,

Frank M.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Jan 2005 01:53 GMT

You cannot insert text at the cursor with Outlook objects, because Outlook
exposes no object related to the insertion point. If WordMail is the editor,
you can use Word automation; see
http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=455 for a code sample.
Otherwise, you can use Redemption's SafeInspector object (
http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/safeinspector.htm )

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Frank M - 14 Jan 2005 13:17 GMT

Thanks, that was most helpful.

Best regards,

Frank M.

> You cannot insert text at the cursor with Outlook objects, because Outlook
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