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Marco Ferrari
Marco Ferrari

Reputation: 5273

How can I display an informative message in an Outlook draft mail window?

How can I show a message like the "Follow up" and "Assign policy" do while composing a new email? (see the highlighted area in the screenshot)

After searching I could not find anything that to lead me in the right direction. It must be something not directly tied with just Inspectors as that area is available also in the Explorer.enter image description here.

The closest thing I found are Form Regions but I would like to use the builtin area for this task. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 274

Answers (1)

Eugene Astafiev
Eugene Astafiev

Reputation: 49455

That is MailTips.

The Outlook object model (nor VSTO) doesn't provide anything for that. You may consider using Outlook Form Regions, but they allow placing the form at the bottom of the inspector window.

Add-in Express provides a layout for placing your forms at the top of the inspector windows:

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And the last resort is to subclass Outlook windows using Windows API and create an adjacent window, see Creating Adjacent Windows In Outlook for more information.

Upvotes: 1

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