Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2016

Chapter 27Working with Events in Outlook

If you want to write macros to automate tasks in Outlook, you may sometimes need to write code that responds to Outlook events. Outlook has two classes of events, application-level events and item-level events, and between them, they enable your macros to respond to most anything that happens in Outlook. In this chapter, you will learn how to work with both types of events, and you will see code examples showing how to manage some of the events.

How Event-Handler Procedures Differ from Ordinary Macros

The techniques used to write and test an event-handler procedure differ from the techniques you've employed throughout this book to create and test ordinary macro procedures. If you intend to test the ...