Disappearing toolbar with Outlook 2003/Word

[Dan Teven]

My Outlook add-in creates a temporary toolbar in every inspector
window. It seems to work fine in Outlook 2002, whether Outlook or Word
is selected as the e-mail editor. It also works fine in Outlook 2003
when Outlook is the e-mail editor.

However, when Outlook 2003 is set to use WordMail, I have serious
problems. The symptoms seem to differ from computer to computer, but
there are two common ones:

1. Sometimes, my toolbar appears when I open the first WordMail
window, but it's gone when I open subsequent windows -- whether through
New, Reply, or Forward. (It is still listed, unchecked, on the menu
when I right-click in the toolbar area, and it works if I manually
re-check it, but it disappears again on the next window.)

2. Sometimes, the toolbar appears consistently in the WordMail
windows, but also shows up in regular Word documents (where it is not
wanted).

Judging from the tens of thousands of hits I get when I google for
similar problems, I'm going to need another solution. I tried using a
permanent toolbar; I ended up with symptom #2 in spades. I tried
explicitly deleting the temporary one in the InspectorEvents.Close
handler, thinking I could get Word to recreate it each time; it didn't
seem to make a difference. I am about ready to attempt a Word
auto-startup macro to create the toolbar, but I know nothing about Word
macros and I don't know if I can deploy one without triggering a
security warning.

What I'm trying to accomplish seems really straightforward. Has anyone
found a completely satisfactory implementation?

 

[Dan Teven]

bump

 

[Brian Tillman]

My Outlook add-in creates a temporary toolbar in every inspector
window. It seems to work fine in Outlook 2002, whether Outlook or
Word is selected as the e-mail editor. It also works fine in Outlook
2003 when Outlook is the e-mail editor.

Perhaps you'll get more attention in the m.p.outlook.program_vba or
m.p.o.program_addins newsgroup.