Article ID: 263028
Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q263028
SUMMARY
This article provides a code sample that shows how to programmatically search for items that contain a specific string in the Subject field. This procedure searches a selected folder and all of its subfolders.
MORE INFORMATION
The following sample is designed for Outlook Visual Basic for Applications. To use this sample in Visual Basic or other Microsoft Office programs, verify that the Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library is referenced, and then change the following line of code
Set olApp = Application
to:
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
The code sample in this section uses the PickFolder method to prompt for which folder to search, however, this method is not available in Microsoft Outlook 97. For additional information about how to reference a specific folder, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
182614 OL98: Programming Examples for Referencing Items and Folders
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Dim strSearchString As String Dim lCountOfFound As Long Sub WalkFolders() Dim olApp As Outlook.Application Dim olSession As Outlook.NameSpace Dim olStartFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder Dim strPrompt As String 'Initialize count of folders searched lCountOfFound = 0 ' Get a reference to the Outlook application and session. Set olApp = Application Set olSession = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI") ' Allow the user to input the search string. strPrompt = "Enter the search string to be found in the subject:" strSearchString = InputBox(strPrompt) If strSearchString <> "" Then ' Allow the user to pick the folder in which to start the search. Set olStartFolder = olSession.PickFolder ' Check to make sure user didn't cancel PickFolder dialog. If Not (olStartFolder Is Nothing) Then ' Start the search process. ProcessFolder olStartFolder MsgBox CStr(lCountOfFound) & " messages were found." End If End If End Sub Sub ProcessFolder(CurrentFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder) Dim i As Long Dim olNewFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder ' late bind this object variable, since it could be various item types Dim olTempItem As Object ' Loop through the items in the current folder. ' Looping through backwards in case items are to be deleted, ' as this is the proper way to delete items in a collection. For i = CurrentFolder.Items.Count To 1 Step -1 Set olTempItem = CurrentFolder.Items(i) ' Check to see if a match is found If InStr(1, olTempItem.Subject, strSearchString, 0) > 0 Then ' The following are examples of what you can do: ' 1. To notify that message was found: ' MsgBox "Found message with subject: " & olTempItem.Subject ' ' 2. To delete the item: ' olTempItem.Delete ' ' 3. To move the item: ' NOTE: You need to first define olDestFolder ' olTempItem.Move olDestFolder ' lCountOfFound = lCountOfFound + 1 End If Next ' Loop through and search each subfolder of the current folder. For Each olNewFolder In CurrentFolder.Folders If olNewFolder.Name <> "Deleted Items" Then ProcessFolder olNewFolder End If Next End Sub
REFERENCES
For additional information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
180826 OL98: Resources for Custom Forms and Programming
182349 OL98: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions
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