Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming

Chapter 17. Working with Item Bodies

The large text box at the bottom of every standard form exposes what Outlook stores as the Body property and, on HTML-format messages and posts, the HTMLBody property. Generically, this information can be referred to as the item body. In earlier chapters, we learned how to access standard, custom, and hidden MAPI properties of Outlook items, but these two standard properties require a more in-depth treatment. Almost every Outlook programmer will work with item bodies at some point, yet the skills needed to work with them successfully go beyond Outlook programming to include Word text handling techniques and even the ability to read text from a file.

Highlights of this chapter include:

• How to change the format ...