macro to toggle reading in plain text

[Mark]

I'm not a programmer and it looks like creating simple macros in
Outlook 2003 requires more programming skills than in Word, so I could
use some help here with the coding.

What I'd like to do is create a macro that will toggle the
Tools|Options|Email Options "Read all standard mail in plain text"
option. Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

 

[Michael Bauer]

Am 17 Dec 2005 10:05:41 -0800 schrieb Mark:

Mark, the setting is stored in the Registry. You could change it but Outlook
wouldn´t recognize the change before the next start. So I think it wouldn´t
help you.

 

[Mark]

Thanks Michael. I am a bit confused though. How is it that I can turn
the option on and off within the same Outlook session manually and it
always takes effect immediately (and yet, I wouldn't be able to set a
macro to do the same thing)?

Mark

 

[Michael Bauer]

Am 14 Jan 2006 08:06:54 -0800 schrieb Mark:

Mark, there´re a lot more properties in Outlook than its object model offers
you. Outlook has access to them and you also do via the Options dialog, but
you don´t via code.

There´s a Windows message, WM_WININICHANGE, that "could" be used to force
applications to read there ini settings again, e.g. after you´ve changed the
registry. But unfortunately Outlook seems to ignore that message.