Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Creating and Using Userforms in VBA

VBA code might sometimes not be enough to perform the operations you need within Outlook. If you need to gather information before running your code, or just want to use Outlook to perform advanced operations with email messages or other Outlook items, you can create userforms directly in VBA. These forms are very different from custom Outlook forms. Userforms are very similar to Visual Basic forms. They can have code that runs when the form loads or in response to an event such as a button click or data entered in the form.

Add a new userform to your project by right-clicking anywhere in the Project Explorer and selecting Insert, UserForm. A new userform is inserted in your project and the control toolbox ...