set focus to the TO textbox in a mail message

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rub - 23 Nov 2006 20:30 GMT

I don't know whether I tampered with something but when I open a new
mail message the focus is not set to the TO: textbox or recipient. I
have written a macro to do that but upon opening I don't know how to
set focus to that textbox.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] - 24 Nov 2006 06:23 GMT

You'd need some Win32 API functions, and you'd need to know the handle of
the window of that textbox. For exploring that a tool like Spy++ is very
useful.

Here's a sample that demonstrates how to set the focus to the Body of HTML
and text mails in OL 2000 and 2003 (no RTF and not tested for OL XP):

http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?mnu=2&smp=20&cmd=showitem

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Am 23 Nov 2006 12:30:44 -0800 schrieb rub:

> I don't know whether I tampered with something but when I open a new
> mail message the focus is not set to the TO: textbox or recipient. I
> have written a macro to do that but upon opening I don't know how to
> set focus to that textbox.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated

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rub - 24 Nov 2006 16:24 GMT

Thank much.
I will read it over.

> You'd need some Win32 API functions, and you'd need to know the handle of
> the window of that textbox. For exploring that a tool like Spy++ is very
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> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated

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