VBA for creating Category toolbar in Outlook 2003

Hi,

I know very little about VBA and how to make it work in Outlook.  Is there 
someone who can write what I need to create a category toolbar in Outlook and 
then tell me how to implement it?

Thanks.

Hi Melody.  This isn't something that I can quickly write for you, but it is 
possible with a little effort.  If you are interested in learning how to 
write this I'm here to help.  You'd need more than Outlook VBA knowledge 
though.  Customizing command bars and menus uses the Office Object Model.  
Furthermore, Categories are stored in the registry and requires a little more 
advanced knowledge on how to retrieve that information.

-- 
Eric Legault - Outlook MVP, MCDBA, MCTS (SharePoint programming, etc.)
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Hi Eric,

Thanks for responding.  Seems like such a simple request shouldn't be so 
difficult to accomplish.  I'm pretty software/computer savvy so I think I 
could follow your direction.  The only problem is that this is on my work 
computer and I think they've "locked down" the registry so I can't even look 
at it.  Unless there's another way to see other than regedit.

If you can use Categories in Outlook, you should be able to access them in 
code.  Look in regedit for this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Categories\MasterList

There is some sample code here that shows how you can retrieve this list:

 http://www.**--****.com/ 
(See "Read the master categories list of a user" section)

An alternative is to use the Win32API to access the registry, or just Google 
for "Visual Basic Registry Class" and you'll find some code that you can 
reuse to work with the registry.

There's also some samples here on creating custom command bars and menus:

TIP: Fun with Outlook CommandBars: 
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Or if you feel like doing some shopping, this add-in might work for you:

CategorieZ - Organize your categories the quick and easy way - About: 
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Let me know if you have any questions.

-- 
Eric Legault - Outlook MVP, MCDBA, MCTS (SharePoint programming, etc.)
Try Picture Attachments Wizard for Outlook: 
 http://www.**--****.com/ 
Blog:  http://www.**--****.com/ 

Thanks again.  I'll look into some of these.  Not sure how much I can do as 
this is a work pc.  I tried regedit to access the registry and I get an 
access denied type error message.  I'll see what I can do anyway.  Thanks for 
the help.

Eric, don't forget the much more powerful Category Manager :)

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Viele Gruesse / Best regards
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Am Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:38:06 -0700 schrieb Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Categories\MasterList
Google 

Thanks Michael,

I didn't want to spend any money on this and probably couldn't use it anyway 
as this is a work pc.  Seems like this is something that should just be a 
part of Outlook anyway.  Oh well.  Thanks all for your help.

As we offered in different newsgroups already, we can help you to write the
code yourself. But believe me, if that's done you'd wish to have spent the
few bucks instead.

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Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
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Am Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:08:03 -0700 schrieb Melody:

anyway 

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in 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Categories\MasterList
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