No Record a Macro in Outlook 2003? Why not?

[Gabby]

This is one inexcusable point against Outlook development team for the
2003 version. I've been waiting to see them implement this but it's
still not there. Why?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Most Office programs these days do not have a macro recorder. The exceptions are the document-centric programs like Word and Excel. The operations that people typically want to do in Outlook don't lend themselves easily to recording a macro.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Gabby]

Most Office programs these days do not have a macro recorder. The =
exceptions are the document-centric programs like Word and Excel. The =
operations that people typically want to do in Outlook don't lend =
themselves easily to recording a macro.=20
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx=20

I thought Office 2003 would implement a form of VB.Net. Did I hear
incorrectly on this or has Microsoft scaled back plans to include VB.Net
for Office?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You may have heard incorrectly. Microsoft has released a developer toolkit called Visual Studio Tools for Office that allows you to use ..Net tools to develop managed code templates and documents for Word and Excel only.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers