Switching to my Inbox in Outlook
Submitted by Matt Chambers on Fri, 07/20/2007 - 13:55.
I'm trying to write a macro that will quickly and reliably bring up the window that is my Inbox view in Microsoft Outlook. When I am working, I almost always have Outlook open, and set to viewing my inbox. I may, however, also have other windows in Outlook open, such as an e-mail message or a contact.
I have tried using AppBringUp and AppSwapWith, but have found that they don't work very reliably, to put it charitably.
Right now, I'm using a macro that runs through the open tasks on the taskbar until the active window title reads "Inbox -Microsoft Outlook". It works fairly well, but certainly is not bulletproof.
I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this using windows API code, but so far I have not identified it.
There was a thread on this
There was a thread on this in the natpro macros list of yahoogroups. Quite involved procedures, that work most of the time.
I was, afterwards, again surprised by the simple AppBringup "outlook" calls. After that just ctrl+1 to go to email,
ctrl+3 to go to contacts etc.
To go to inbox there used to be shift+ctrl+i but I cannot find that one any more.
I can past some macro's if you wish.
Quintijn
I don't remember that
I don't remember that thread. I'll go look, of course. Do you remember when the messages were posted?