[RESOLVED] Outlook : Selected mailitem.body property

[Ossewa]

The purpose of the code is to create a new task with the currently selected mailitem's body as the body of the new taks. In other words : Create a copy of a message as a Task form.

My problem: Don't know how to use the selected message handle. I run this from a custom toolbar button created in the normal outlook explorer window and in the message opened window.

My code:

Sub DisplayForm()
Set myMailFolder = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set myMailItem = myMailFolder.Items(2)
Set myTaskFolder = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderTasks)
Set myItem = myTaskFolder.Items.Add("IPM.Task")
    
    With myItem
        .Subject = myMailItem.Subject
        .Body = myMailItem.Body
   End With
   myItem.Display
End Sub

As you can see, at the moment the body text of mailitem (2) is copied and not which ever one the user has selected at the time.

Ps. The 3rd party exchange server I use does not support custom tasks, so I have to do this with code, can't use the more conventional custom actions function in design form.

Thanks

[MartinLiss]

The FAQs forum is not meant for questions and since I assume you are doing this within Outlook I moved your thread here.