Article ID: 292797
Article Last Modified on 2/27/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q292797
SUMMARY
This article describes how you can assign a Microsoft Outlook Visual Basic for Applications macro to a toolbar button.
MORE INFORMATION
In Outlook, you can create Visual Basic for Applications macros that use the Outlook object model to perform certain tasks. If you want to easily run the macro at any time, you can assign the macro to a toolbar button so that you can click the button to run the macro.
NOTE: Since Visual Basic for Applications is considered "application-level" code, you should add the toolbar button to the Outlook Standard toolbar and not the toolbars on items.
To Create the Toolbar Button
- On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and click Customize.
- On the Commands tab, in the Categories list, click Macros.
- Drag the appropriate macro name to a toolbar. In most cases, the name will be prefixed by Project1.ThisOutlookSession, unless you created the macro in another module instead of the ThisOutlookSession module.
- With the toolbar button selected, click Modify Selection in the Customize list, to make changes to the appearance of the button. This will allow you to remove the prefix and modify the way the toolbar button is displayed. For example, you can change this setting so that only an icon is displayed on the toolbar instead of text.
- Click Close.
For additional information about assigning a macro to a shortcut key, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
292798 OL2002: How to Assign a Macro to a Shortcut Key
REFERENCES
For additional information about available resources and answersto commonly asked questions about Microsoft Outlook solutions, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
287530 OL2002: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions
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