It assumes that your reply is above the email chain. If you reply below then you may have to rework things…

loaded the file in WindowsAddressBook and then got them in outlook and eventually as a VCF by “Forward as a Business Card” and extracting from email

the problem is iCloud is not accepting the vcf file, neither individual nor the combined file

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i hav got the contacts in my iPhone via the exchange account but i want them to be transferred to iCloud

I appreciate all the time you put into this!

I’ve got the code working right now with one exception. Currently, the reminder pops up when I am replying to an email with one of the trigger words in the main body of the email. I tried a couple different variants of the following piece of code, but haven’t been able to solve it:

intLength = InStr(1, strBody, “from:”)
If intLength = 0 Then intLength = Len(strBody)

Any idea what could be causing the issue? Other than that, it works brilliantly!

Andy

-Carl

I have been using it in OL2010 for quite some time without any issues. Please see my comments above from 27-Feb-2011 and 20-Aug-2011 to see if that might give you some ideas. I will check to make sure I didn’t make any other significant modifications to the core code since this blog post was written.

-Carl

I would normally suggest the ideas above related to security settings since that’s what normally causes the sort of behavior you are describing. It sounds like you’ve already tried all that, however. Some other things to check might be: (1) The module/location… be sure you are putting the macro in the ThisOutlookSession module, and (2) make sure that it is getting saved correctly (no issues with special characters, parts of the code being truncated, etc.).

If you want to rule out other issues with the code, you can create an ultra-simple version of the macro that only creates a “hello world” pop-up every time you send a message. Strip out all of the other logic. If you can’t get that pop-up to trigger, then you have some other issue unrelated to the macro code.

-Carl

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Thanks in advance,

Jonathan

I have read through the above posts and followed all of the recommandation in regards to setting the security and certifying the macro. but still does not work. I have to open the VBA editor for it to start working again.
but after rebooting it won’t work any more .

Any idea what’s happening or if there are other outlook setting I need to doe to make it work all of the time when I click on the Send button?

Sir, you are a genius.
What a fantastic idea. I have developed your idea a bit and simplified the icons/rules.
Tasks, to me, are either in play and being worked on, or paused for some reason (waiting for, scheduled or someday/maybe). So I used play and pause icons to represent these.
Take a look at what I did at the reference below.
I submitted it back to the MLO community forum at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mylifeorganized/6WZqKM2hMeQ

Thanks again for making MLO better!

Cheers,
Peter.

I have a code which will move new mails from one group mailbox to another.The code is working fine but it stops working once in an hour. I am restarting the outlook to get the outlook code started.Could you please help me on this?.

Regards,
Solairajan

That is correct, MLO embeds all of the icons into the XML file when you export a rule. I was able to re-import them on my own system (which is also Win7 64-bit) but I’m not sure what else might be different. When I get a chance, I will also post a zip file with all of the icons in PNG format in case we are not able to figure out the XML import.

Thanks for highlighting this.

-Carl

The following warning(s) occurred during import.
Rule @Someday
Cannot change the size of a icon

This repeats for all of the rules starting at @Someday on. I even tried a NEW MLO file, same result. Running MLO version 3.6.1 on win7 64bit.

0. create a new blank message
1. on ribbon, pick tab “Insert” /”attach item”
2. Radio-button “Insert as” attachment
3. in tree “Look in” : pick “Contacts”
4. in list “Items” : select all individual contact rows
5. press “OK”
6. A possibly-large blank-body e-mail will have your contacts as attachments as full-VCF. Cut-and-paste in large groups to your selected hard drive directory.

7. then as described above “open DOS window in that directory and type this command:
copy *.vcf contacts.vcf

8. FINALLY: Curse MS and this moronic ribbon concept.

I did this with the DOS method which worked great for me! combined all the files to one for my phone and kept the single files for my outlook 2010 at home

Thanks for this great post!!!!!

How to attach note to Outlook 2007 or 2010 email: http://www.shahriarnk.com/blog/2012/08/adding-attaching-note-comments-to-an-ms-outlook-email/

Now, I’m on the road to recovery. Thank you!

~ James

In outlook 2007, I do not see any way to add notes to an email.

If you found a way, please let me know.
Regards,

It took me a google to find the scheduler on Vista. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Schedule-a-task — Open Task Scheduler by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Task Scheduler.

The Vista options were all rearranged, but I was able to translate them. They got rid of the “until time” option and only use duration from what I can see, so I created “every day, repeat every hour for a duration of one day”. I also set it to not run until the computer had been idle for 10 minutes because I’d rather it not sync while I’m actively working with it.

Thanks again!

I was wondering if there’s a way to retain this code between sessions. Something like a start-up batch that attaches this code to the current outlook session? What happens if i restart my system or something?

#x – Cut selection to new DROE entry

The instructions for autohotkey suggest using a `n for a linefeed but that’s not working:

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/FormatTime.htm

Would you consider a new variable for text that should be placed at the end of an entry?

#Left and #Right have meaning in Windows 7. Perhaps the default for DROE should be changed.

#

have meaning in Windows 7 and are pretty useful out of the box.. Perhaps you should change the default hotkeys to include shift.

-Carl

The other service that offered excellent Outlook integration was Jott, but unfortunately that service is now gone. Some others you might want to consider are Dial2Do, PhoneTag, or Voice on the Go. The only one of these I have tried is Dial2Do which worked fine, but reQall (and Jott) felt more polished.

Another option if you want to create Outlook appointments and tasks with any of the other services is to use an Outlook rule to trigger a VBA macro when messages come in from the voice-to-text email address. You can have the macro trigger on certain phrases such as “new task” or “new appointment” to create the appropriate Outlook object or do nothing and pass the message on to the Inbox. There are several examples out there on how to do this – some assembly required, batteries not included. If you are not comfortable with VBA, however, you could waste a lot of time tweaking this to get it to work the way you want.

-Carl

Also, FYI, this post about Google Voice is cool but does take into account the amazing capability of ReQall to automatically create Outlook Appointments and Tasks.

If anyone knows of a direct ReQall competitor with the same Outlook capability, please post up fast!

Note, however, that this seems to be enabled by default now with Office 2010 so you may no longer need to do this with newer versions of Office / Outlook.

-Carl

Jott was pretty good and it allowed you to spell out peoples’ names. Unfortunately they got rid of the free version, and now it is shut down altogether.

Both reQall and Google Voice do an okay job, but I would not trust any of these services to send an email directly. I would always recommend sending the message to yourself for edits before sending it on to someone else. One nice feature of reQall is that you receive the audio as an attachment, so if the transcription is garbled you don’t need to log in to get to the original audio. I have been using reQall for several years now and am quite happy with it.

-Carl

For the DOS command to join all of the files into one, see the very first comment above from MihaM.

-Carl

-Carl

Thanks for your comments! Right now the file encoding setting is null in the DROE tool, which should cause it to use the system default encoding. It looks like that is not happening for some reason. In a future version I can add a switch in the INI file to allow users to force a particular file encoding. Thanks for pointing this out.

-Carl

-Carl

Hope that helps!

-Carl

Thanks for your comments… I haven’t fully worked out the mobile DROE access piece yet. One tool that does help is reQall. This at least allows me to capture notes on the fly, especially when I’m driving and I don’t want to be looking at a smartphone screen. I have it on speed dial. Another option is to set up Google Voice to capture thoughts, notes, etc. When I am back at my PC, I paste the content into the appropriate location. I have been experimenting with various ways to have the DROE on a mobile device, but nothing worth sharing yet.

As far as personal vs. professional, I use one combined setup. Having appropriate contexts for various tasks help keep things straight. I feel it’s more efficient to maintain one system and perform one combined weekly review. I also want to be able to make trade-offs and priority calls when it comes to my time. That requires having a complete picture of all of my roles and my “big rocks” (both personal and professional), and thinking about each one during my weekly review.

-Carl

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If I understand correctly, you don’t want to trigger on embedded (OLE) attachments. Once you detect that the attachment count is > 0 you would have to step through each attachment to see if it is OLE vs. something else. You could re-use some of the code in the Outlook attachment stripper to check this. Look for lines like “If objAttachments.Item(1).Type <> olOLE Then”

You might want to also alter the order of your checks in that case (check for attachments > 0 first, then check to see if “[SD]” is missing, then (if missing) step through the attachments.

Hope that helps!

-Carl

I think you can do this, and it would be a nice enhancement to the macro. You can probably detect (and ignore) your own signature attachment using the attachment size, type (OLE, etc.), or exact filename. If you look at my code for the Outlook attachment stripper, you will see some examples of how to check for these parameters. For example, I look for an attachment named “Attachments Removed” in that macro and skip the message if I find it.

-Carl

-Carl

strBody = LCase(Item.Subject) & LCase(Item.Body)

to:

strBody = LCase(Item.Subject)

and remove the next few lines that are looking for the word “from:” in the body. Then, remove the other word checks that are looking for “file”, “attach”, etc. and just have one that contains your string:

If intIn = 0 Then intIn = InStr(1, strBody, “298″)

With this logic, a value of 0 should trigger a message, so change:

If intIn > 0 And intAttachCount <= intStandardAttachCount Then

to this:

If intIn = 0 Then

Note that you can remove the references to attachment counts if you are not using them.

There may be a few other changes required as well, but what you are asking can definitely be done. The best way to learn is to do some hands-on experiments Hope that helps!

-Carl

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Dim strSubject As String
strSubject = Item.Subject

Dim intAttachCount As Integer
intAttachCount = Item.Attachments.Count

If intAttachCount > 0 Then

If InStr(strSubject, “[SD]“) = 0 Then
Prompt$ = “Email has an attachment and is not being sent via Secure Delivery. Are you sure you want to send the email?”
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbCritical + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Secure Delivery Check”) = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End If
End Sub