Looking for a way to automate some tasks in Outlook 2003

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Milhouse Van Houten

For example, I often go into Options/Security/Change Automatic Download
Settings to check an item there for the rare occasion I want to block images
in my HTML mail. When I'm done, I go back and uncheck the item, of course.

Is there a way to do such a thing without all that navigating and clicking?
I'd love to set up, for example, a custom button on the toolbar or a hotkey
toggle.

I realize that there might be some 3rd-party macro programs I could buy, or
perhaps I could learn a new language such as WSH and spend a weekend, but I
was hoping to avoid both.

Thanks
 
That setting is stored in the Windows registry. You'd have to write code to
change it and, even then, without testing, there's no way to know if the
change would effect immediately.
 
Sue Mosher said:
That setting is stored in the Windows registry. You'd have to write code
to change it and, even then, without testing, there's no way to know if
the change would effect immediately.
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Well, when adjusting it manually it takes place immediately, so automating
that action would be immediate too. Note that I was using that as an example
of something simple -- it could be anything similar -- but I guess this goes
to show that Windows needs some kind of automation tool built-in that normal
people can use (think OS X's Automator), not merely a programming language.
I seem to recall in the Win 3.x days, there was such a tool in Windows; I
don't recall the name of it, but something was there, I think, but it's
fallen by the wayside.
 
Well, when adjusting it manually it takes place immediately, so automating
that action would be immediate too.
Click to expand...

That's what you might expect, but I would do sufficient testing to actually
confirm it.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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