replacing Outlook forms

[Pete]

Is it possible to replace outlook's default forsm ( eg reminder ) with your
own form to make it do more - eg the ability to fire off another application
etc or send an email etc

If yes - any good books or samples around

TIA


Pete

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

A reminder is not shown in an Outlook form and you cannot modify how
reminders are displayed.

You can handle various reminder events such as Application.Reminder for
Outlook 2000 and later, and Application.Reminders.ReminderFire or
..ReminderAdd and so on if using Outlook 2002 or later.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/sendreminder.htm for a code example
that sends emails when reminders fire for an idea of what you can do.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you have Outlook 2000 or later, you can make a registry change to
substitute your custom form for the default form. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#changedefault . Note that it
doesn't work completely for message forms in Outlook 2003.

 

[Pete]

Thank you Ken and Sue

Looks like I'm really going to have to buy your books now - been putting
it off

Pete

 

[Pete]

Sue / Ken

I take it from the example Ken gave from sue's book that I could
theoretically fire off another application ???? - that is to automatically
update some data elswhere .

Pete

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You can start an application by using CreateObject, like for Word or Excel
for example. You can also run programs by using Windows Scripting or
Shell.Execute. You can also do things like connecting to a database using an
ADO Connection and execute code on the database. Lots of things you can do.

 

[Pete]

Thank you - just what I need to do

Pete

You can start an application by using CreateObject, like for Word or Excel
for example. You can also run programs by using Windows Scripting or
Shell.Execute. You can also do things like connecting to a database using an
ADO Connection and execute code on the database. Lots of things you can do.