Archive for May, 2008

Highlight And Move Multiple Emails

Friday, May 30th, 2008 272 views

Okay so I said I would be writing some VBA code to export contacts and emails from Outlook to Excel, well, I lied, sort of. That code is still coming, but before I post it, here is a routine that lets you run VBA code on multiple messages at the ...

Open Any Email Attachment From Outlook

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 268 views

I was inspired to write some VBA code that lets you open any attachment in its native application by a recent newsgroup post from Outlook MVP Sue Mosher. The truth is I was bored, and it was easy to code because I simply reused code I had just written for ...

XML Parsing Function

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 129 views

In keeping with my Website XML parsing post, here is a short function that returns the body text from a webpage as a string, on which you can use other functions like Instr, Left$, Mid$, etc, to extract necessary data. Function URLText(sURL As String) As String ' check website.com using xml ' early ...

Save Incoming Attachments, Choose Your Folder

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 152 views

Here's a sub and a function for Outlook that let's you save attachments from a selected or open email. It's similar to the File>Save Attachments menu option, which lets you save all of the attachments from a particular email, or the FindControl Method, which can be used to find and ...

Read those image files in Outlook

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 110 views

I recently discovered a new object library that seems pretty useful - the Microsoft Office Document Imaging Type Library. From the MSDN site: The Microsoft® Office Document Imaging 2003 (MODI) object model makes it possible to develop custom applications for managing document images (such as scanned and faxed documents) and the ...