Microsoft KB Archive/253313

= OL2000: How to Automatically Move Inbox Items With a Blank Subject =

Article ID: 253313

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q253313



SUMMARY
This article describes how to use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to move Outlook messages to a specific folder if the messages have a blank subject.



MORE INFORMATION
You cannot create an Outlook rule to move messages that have a blank or null subject with the Rules Wizard. You can move messages that have a blank or null subject with a VBA code. The code in the "How to Enter the Code in the Visual Basic Editor" section of this article moves any messages that arrive in your Inbox to a subfolder that is named "Temp" (without quotation marks). After you enter the code, you can assign the Start and Stop macros to a toolbar button.

This code is designed to run from the built-in "ThisOutlookSession" code module in the Outlook 2000 Visual Basic for Applications project and assumes that you have created a new subfolder named Temp in your Inbox.

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How to Enter the Code in the Visual Basic Editor
To enter the code in the Visual Basic Editor:  On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor. In the Project pane, click to expand the folders, and then double-click the ThisOutlookSession icon.  Type or paste the following code into the Code window. ' The first two "Dim" statements declare ' global variables, and must be located in ' the "General Declarations" section at ' the beginning of the Code window.

Dim WithEvents objInboxItems As Outlook.Items Dim objDestinationFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder

' Run this code to start your rule. Sub StartRule Dim objNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace Dim objInboxFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Set objNameSpace = Application.Session Set objInboxFolder = objNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox) Set objInboxItems = objInboxFolder.Items Set objDestinationFolder = objInboxFolder.Folders("Temp") End Sub

' Run this code to stop your rule. Sub StopRule Set objInboxItems = Nothing End Sub

' This code is the actual rule. Private Sub objInboxItems_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object) If Item.Subject = "" Then Item.Move objDestinationFolder End If End Sub  On the File menu, click Save VbaProject.OTM. You can now run the StartRule and StopRule macros to turn the rule on and off. Quit the Visual Basic Editor.</ol>

After you save the macros, you can assign them to a toolbar button.

For additional information about how to assign a macro to a toolbar button, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

252426 OL2000: How to Assign a Macro to a Toolbar Button

How to Customize the Macro
To have the macro run every time Outlook starts, change the name of the subroutine from StartRule to Application_Startup or call the StartRule procedure that is in the Application_Startup procedure. The Application_Startup procedure must be located in the ThisOutlookSession module. The following code is an example: Private Sub Application_Startup StartRule End Sub This example moves items with blank subjects to the Temp subfolder. You can modify the value of objDestinationFolder in the code to change the destination folder for the moved items. There are various ways to refer to a folder programmatically. For additional information about how to refer to a folder using the Outlook object model, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

208520 OL2000: Programming Examples for Referencing Items and Folders

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