Microsoft KB Archive/171109

= OL97: Next/Previous Disabled Using Programming to Display Item =

Article ID: 171109

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q171109



SYMPTOMS
When you display a Microsoft Outlook 97 item using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications or Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), you are not able to use the item's Next or Previous commands to move to following or previous items in the folder.



MORE INFORMATION
If you manually open the item (without using code), the commands are available and perform as expected.

Steps to Reproduce Problem
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The following Visual Basic for Applications code illustrates the problem: Sub DisplayMailItem Dim ol As Outlook.Application Dim olns As NameSpace Dim MyInbox As Object Dim MyItems As Object Set ol = New Outlook.Application Set olns = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI") ' Set MyInbox to the user's default Inbox. Set MyInbox = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox) ' Display the Inbox. MyInbox.Display ' Set MyItems to the collection of items in the Inbox. Set MyItems = MyInbox.Items ' Display the second item. MyItems(2).Display End Sub When you run this sample code to display an Outlook message, the Previous and Next buttons on the message's toolbar do not function, and if you click Previous or Next on the View menu, no choices are available.

