**SORTED** MAPIMessages.Show

Gang,

If you do a MAPIMessages.Show and get your address book, when you select a name and perhaps click it into the 'To' field, it doesn't go straight into the message.

Does anyone know if the selected or clicked name is actually put somewhere as eg a variable, and if so where?

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maybe they are stored in one of the following propertys

VB Code:

MAPIMessages.RecipDisplayName 
MAPIMessages.RecipAddress

Do you know by any chance how I can retrieve the address list through code ??

That's what I thought Swatty! And it is the case in fact!

But what I was doing wrong was doing the .Show before the .Compose so there was no compose buffer operational when I clicked a name. Putting the .Compose first did the trick.

And no, I've nfc how to access the address list directly. That's actually what I would have preferred in this case anyway.

Outlook (NOT Outlook Express) address lists should be available as:

VB Code:

Set myOLapp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set mynamespace = myOLapp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
Set myaddresslist = mynamespace.AddressLists("Personal Address Book")
'Set myAddressList = myNameSpace.AddressLists("Global Address List")
Set myAddressEntries = myaddresslist.AddressEntries
    MsgBox "There are this many: " & myAddressEntries.Count
    MsgBox "The first address is: " myAddressEntries(1).Address
Set myAddressEntries = Nothing
Set myaddresslist = Nothing
Set mynamespace = Nothing
Set myOLapp = Nothing