Count number of emails selected

[Guest]

Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder like
the feature available in Excel.

Paddy, Chennai, India

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Outlook has no way of telling you that but indeed just continues to display
the total amount of items in the folder. While whipping up some code to
display the amount of selected items in a message box is not that hard to
do, there is actually a native alert feature we can abuse here which will
give the same results. When you select more than 4 items and press ENTER
Outlook will display an alert telling you the following;
“Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to open
these 11 items?â€
Of course we will click “No†but at least we now know how many items we had
selected.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Roady. I tried out your suggestion. When we try to open more than 4
items, it is displaying a message as you said. It may not be the right
solution that I was looking for. Yet this is also a good idea. Thanks for
your help.

Outlook has no way of telling you that but indeed just continues to display
the total amount of items in the folder. While whipping up some code to
display the amount of selected items in a message box is not that hard to
do, there is actually a native alert feature we can abuse here which will
give the same results. When you select more than 4 items and press ENTER
Outlook will display an alert telling you the following;
“Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to open
these 11 items?â€
Of course we will click “No†but at least we now know how many items we had
selected.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder
like
the feature available in Excel.

Paddy, Chennai, India

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Thanks Roady. I tried out your suggestion. When we try to open more than 4
items, it is displaying a message as you said. It may not be the right
solution that I was looking for. Yet this is also a good idea. Thanks for
your help.

Outlook has no way of telling you that but indeed just continues to
display
the total amount of items in the folder. While whipping up some code to
display the amount of selected items in a message box is not that hard to
do, there is actually a native alert feature we can abuse here which will
give the same results. When you select more than 4 items and press ENTER
Outlook will display an alert telling you the following;
“Opening a lot of items could take some time. Are you sure you want to
open
these 11 items?â€
Of course we will click “No†but at least we now know how many items we
had
selected.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Is it possible to show the count of number emails selected on a folder
like
the feature available in Excel.

Paddy, Chennai, India