Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Improving Your Outlook

You can write many pieces of code to improve your productivity with Outlook. If you routinely use categories, you can use code to ensure that a category is always assigned to your emails when they are sent. You can also write code that runs whenever a new mail message is received and enables you to choose a category from a drop-down list and assign that category to an item.

You can write code to manipulate any folder or item in Outlook. With the increase in mobile devices and the reduction in time people spend at their desks, a good use of Outlook VBA is to send meeting reminders to a user's pager.

Outlook has a built-in event that triggers when a reminder is launched. Launch the VBA editor and select ThisOutlookSession ...