Outlook 2003 Toolbar

[Legal Learning]

Can I customize the existing toolbar in Outlook 2003 (or create a customized
toolbar) and share this toolbar with the rest of the company? Where do the
toolbars live?

thanks in advance for any help

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can try deploying your outcmd.dat file to other computers but I would
not recommend doing this as you'd be undoing all their own customizations
and deploying the file is not always compatible with other configurations.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/filesandsettings.htm

Another approach would be to add this customized toolbar programmatically
and deploy the installation as an addin.

 

[Legal Learning]

Thanks Roady,

There would be no worries on their own customizations as they don't have any
but as I see your information, you do not recommend this. I dabble in VBA in
Word but never in Outlook. How hard would this be to do?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you do it in VBA then you would have the issue of that VBA code doesn't
allow itself to be distributed that easily either.
It might be a bit overkill, but an addin might work best as you can
distribute it more easily and also update it. It's quite easy to define a
toolbar via code and add already existing commands to it.

You might want to ask this question in a developer newsgroup instead and ask
if they have some tips on how to deploy it more effectively.
microsoft.public.program_addins

 

[Legal Learning]

Roady,

Thanks so much for your wise advice. I will do that. Take care,

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome and good luck!

Note that I forgot "outlook" in the newsgroup I pointed out. The right
newsgroup name is;
microsoft.public.outlook.program_addins

Roady,

Thanks so much for your wise advice. I will do that. Take care,