Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Using VBScript to Enhance Custom Forms

Outlook forms are quite powerful. They enable you to add pages, controls, fields, graphics, and custom actions. However, if you need more, you can write Visual Basic Scripting Edition code to run behind your Outlook form. This code can perform a variety of tasks. You can perform calculations, add information to a database, create Outlook items, launch other Windows applications such as the Calculator, and even call VBA macros saved in Outlook.

→ For more information about VBA in Outlook, see “Using VBA in Outlook 2003,” p. 797.

Visual Basic Scripting Edition, or VBScript, is similar to Visual Basic. However, there are a few key differences. You do not declare variables as a type; all variables are Variant ...