Automatically Completing Outlook Reminders

[darreninwarrington]

Hello everyone.

I recently put together a macro which saves the bodies of e-mail
messages as text files which works as I would like it to.

I wanted to automate the running of this macro and discovered that the
best way to this would probably be by creating a task in Outlook which
recurs each day at a specific time and then in the Reminder section of
the This Outlook Session coding in the Visual Basic editor in Outlook
(using version 2003 by the way) I simply added a line to call the
aforementioned macro.

This too works fine in that the reminder appears and the code is run.

However - doing it this way does not automatically dismiss or complete
the task. In order for the task to recur the next day the task must be
completed, not dismissed, and so whilst it works the first time, the
reminder doesn't appear again next day.

Is there any coding I can add to the Reminder section of the This
Outlook Session coding which would automatically dismiss the reminder
(so to remove it from screen) and also mark it as being complete (so to
allow it to recur again next day).

Many thanks for any assistance that you can provide.

Darren

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

YOu can set the task's Complete property to True and save it.

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for general Outlook programming issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers