I send text messages that need to be under a certain number of characters. I
would like Outlook 2007 to tell me the number of characters in the email I am
composing. I have done it in Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as the edittor
using Word's word count feature. But, I don't see how to do this in 2007.

Thank you.
JerryK

This few lines of VBA code might be an option:

Public Sub CountMyStuff()
MsgBox Len(Application.ActiveInspector.Currentitem.Body)
End Sub

You may add a button to the toolbar of your mail window and call the macro
from there.

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Am Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:04:01 -0700 schrieb jerryk:

> I send text messages that need to be under a certain number of characters.
I
> would like Outlook 2007 to tell me the number of characters in the email I
am
> composing. I have done it in Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as the edittor
> using Word's word count feature. But, I don't see how to do this in 2007.
>
> Thank you.
> JerryK

Works great! Thank you.
JerryK

"Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

>
>
> This few lines of VBA code might be an option:
>
> Public Sub CountMyStuff()
> MsgBox Len(Application.ActiveInspector.Currentitem.Body)
> End Sub
>
> You may add a button to the toolbar of your mail window and call the macro
> from there.
>
> --
> Best regards
> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>
> : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting
> : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
> : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>
>
>
> Am Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:04:01 -0700 schrieb jerryk:
>
> > I send text messages that need to be under a certain number of characters.
> I
> > would like Outlook 2007 to tell me the number of characters in the email I
> am
> > composing. I have done it in Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as the edittor
> > using Word's word count feature. But, I don't see how to do this in 2007.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > JerryK
>

I need to count characters in OL 2007 also but cannot figure out how to add the VBA code to OL 2007 and create a button for the menue. Can you elaborate on this please.

> On Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:04 PM jerry wrote:

> I send text messages that need to be under a certain number of characters. I
> would like Outlook 2007 to tell me the number of characters in the email I am
> composing. I have done it in Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as the edittor
> using Word's word count feature. But, I don't see how to do this in 2007.
>
> Thank you.
> JerryK


>> On Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:14 PM Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

>> This few lines of VBA code might be an option:
>>
>> Public Sub CountMyStuff()
>> MsgBox Len(Application.ActiveInspector.Currentitem.Body)
>> End Sub
>>
>> You may add a button to the toolbar of your mail window and call the macro
>> from there.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards
>> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>>
>> : VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting
>> : Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
>> : <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>
>>
>>
>> Am Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:04:01 -0700 schrieb jerryk:
>>
>> I
>> am


>>> On Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:28 PM jerry wrote:

>>> Works great! Thank you.
>>> JerryK
>>>
>>> "Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:


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On 24/08/2010 16:43, Terry Hansen wrote:
> I need to count characters in OL 2007 also but cannot figure out how to add the VBA code to OL 2007 and create a button for the menue. Can you elaborate on this please.
>

The Word Count details includes a Character count....in the New Message
window click on the drop-down arrow under Spelling..


>> On Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:04 PM jerry wrote:
>

And you REALLY think anyone is monitoring a thread nearly TWO years old?

[BlueQuail]

No one may be monitoring this thread after another year but, Gordon, thanks for your instructions. Just started to use SMS in Outlook 2007 and this is just what I was looking for.