Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming

Chapter 23. Menus, Toolbars, and the Navigation Pane

For VBA programmers, the most exciting improvement in programmability for the Outlook 2007 user interface is support for six right-click context menus. Other than the new access to context menus, though, Outlook offers limited options for VBA programmers to customize and manipulate the Outlook user interface, fewer than those available to developers of Outlook add-ins. It is possible to use VBA to add and remove toolbars, menus, and commands from the main Outlook window, but not to modify the “ribbon” user interface in an individual item window. The navigation pane falls somewhere in between, with a certain amount of programmability, though less than many Outlook programmers would want to have. ...