Word in Outlook moves caret to message body

[David Thielen]

Hi;

When my add-in is loaded, then whenever I go to create an email message, it
places the caret in the body of the message. If my add-in is not loaded, the
caret starts in the To line.

All I do in my add-ins startup is read from the registry and add my menu to
the Word menu.

Any ideas?

thanks - dave

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi Dave,

Is this Addin for word or for the outlook?
Based on my experience, if the addin is for word, what it concerned about
is the word document, so by default it consider this is a word document, on
addin side, it did not know the document is an email message document. I
think this is by design.

If you still have any concern, please feel free to post here.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[David Thielen]

Yes it is a Word add-in. And you are right that it should not even know it is
in Outlook.

But the problem remains - when I create a new message in Outlook, if my
add-in is running, the caret is moved to the message body from the To line
when the email is created.

Any idea why that happens?

thanks - dave

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi

Do you have a simple test sample to reproduce the problem?I have tried to
write a simple word addin but I can not reproduce the problem.

BTW: It seems that you are working on an word addin and post many posts in
this queue.
Do you think if there is anything related with each other? Can you bind a
few of them together in one post, so that we can figure out your real
scenario which will help us to identify the scenario.

Also if you can mail me a simple reproduce sample about a few posts I think
that will save us a lot of time to make a common idea about the real
scenario.
If you do not have any concern, please feel free to post here.


Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[David Thielen]

I don't have a simple example but again, I am happy to send my source code to
MS if it is treated confidentially. And the add-in itself can be downloaded
at http://www.windwarddownloads.net/beta/AutoTagSetup.msi

thanks - dave

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi Dave,

Since I can not reproduce the problem on my side with simple addin, it is
hard to guess what had happened. Also without code we can not guess the
problem.
I think you may contact MS PSS which provice the service of code review. If
you have concern for you code confidential, you may also try to sign an
agreement with us to keep the confidential. In newsgroup support, we did
not provide the service for code review. I am sorry for that.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[David Thielen]

Hi;

Let me phrase the question simply. What caoul I do in a Word add-in that
would cause the caret to move from the To edit control to the message control
when a message is first created? (Then, whatever that is, I will stop doing
it.)

thanks - dave

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi

Since I can not reproduce the problem on my side, and I did not find any
known issue about this problem.
So without a simple reproduce sample it is hard to guess what had happened
in your side.
That's why I suggest you contact MS PSS for code review.

If you still have any concern, please post here.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.