Comments on: Lotus Notes’ [Send only] and [Send and File] buttons for Outlook 2003

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:25:16 +0000

Thanks! You saved my life with this elegant code! I had an add-in for Outlook that did the same thing, and loved it. Somehow, I had failed to backup the original add-in installer, and when I migrated to a new computer I lost it. You saved me hours of coding–I’m not much of a VB person.

Wish you had included some code to just file an email from the inbox by clicking a toolbar button, but I guess you can’t have everything.

Thanks again! M

By: Christy

Christy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:21:37 +0000

Thanks. This is great and works in Outlook 2007.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:22:35 +0000

Thanks alot!!! Works great!
I missed that feature sadly since my company switched to Outlook!

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:18:24 +0000

I haven’t installed this yet, but likely will. I find it hard to believe that every mail system doesn’t have this. It is basic: you want your sent mail in the folder with the received mail on that subject. In my case it is mostly to keep communication with customers together. Problem is that I REALLY don’t want to keep using Outlook, even with this new function. (Using Lotus Notes client stand alone right now, but the newer releases seem buggy to me).
Thanks!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:48:54 +0000

Awesome! Works nicely in Outlook 2007.
To get it on the Quick Access Toolbar for a one click solution, Open Visual Basic Editor in Outlook and create a macro immediately under Sebastian’s existing code:
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Public Sub SaveAndFile_Run()

SendandFile

End Sub
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Then customize the quick access toolbar, choose commands from Macros and add the SendAndFile_run macro. Modify to an icon and text of your choice and it’s all good!

Thanks Sebastian for a really useful piece of code!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:41:26 +0000

Problem solved, my mistake. If you follow the detailed instructions then it works perfectly.
Thanks once more.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:07:10 +0000

Thanks for the Macros, i just downloaded the german .bas and installed it successfully.

The “Senden und ablegen” Button works, but on the “Nur Senden” Button prompts for a place to store the file like the “Senden und ablegen” Button.

I am using Outlook 2003 SP3 german.

By: Sebastian Thomschke

Sebastian Thomschke — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:29:27 +0000

At which step do you get confused?

By: Tomas Wolf

Tomas Wolf — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:25:37 +0000

I followed the above post but cant figure out how to install the buttons in the toolbar. Feel a little foolish sorry

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:38:01 +0000

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for this piece of work! Works fine in Outlook 2007, just that Outlook put the buttons under the Add-ons Ribbon, so you need 2 clicks to get to it when sending. No big deal – it’s *far* superior to dragging your message from Sent Items to the folder of choice.

I might look into associating a keyboard shortcut with it at some point.

Thanks a million!
Sandra

By: Dirk

Dirk — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:38:02 +0000

Dear Sebastian,

I am using this macro and it’s very helpful for me. But I am missing one feature.
When I click on one of these buttons the the spell check is missing even it it is enabled in the options of Outlook.
How can this be turned on?

Regards
Dirk

By: Sebastian Thomschke

Sebastian Thomschke — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:09:59 +0000

Hi Lorance,

my customers did not yet migrate to Outlook 2007. Thus I didn’t have an opportunity to test the code on the new version.

Regards,

Seb

By: Lorance

Lorance — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:14:26 +0000

do you have a updated version for outlook 2007.
Thanks a lot
Lorance

By: Sebastian Thomschke

Sebastian Thomschke — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:30:25 +0000

Hi John,
I think the problem is that the “sent” folder is a folder in Outlook whereas it is a view in Lotus Notes. So if the button should also make the e-mail available in the sent folder it would have to make a copy of the e-mail and place it there. Instead I’d recommend you to create a custom view ( http://outlook-tips.net/howto/custom_views.htm ) showing all e-mails sent by you.

Regards,
Seb

By: JohnBlack

JohnBlack — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:05:15 +0000

Dear Sebastian, i’ve installed your macro in Outlook 2007 and it works but not exactly how it worked in lotus notes. If you for exmaple would choose “send and file” it would send the email and copy it to a folder of your choosing. But it would also place the email (like any other mail you send) in the “sent” folder. Could you add this option so it will also put send emails in the actual addition “send items” folder

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:35:32 +0000

Works great and thanks a lot. You should note that it only works if you have Outlook as your default email editor. If Word is set as the email editor it will not work. Other wise a bunch of people at my office thank you.

By: Sebastian Thomschke

Sebastian Thomschke — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:04:25 +0000

Hi John,
I do not have access to Outlook 2007 so I cannot say if it works there or not.

Regards,
Seb

By: JohnBlack

JohnBlack — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:03:41 +0000

Dear Sebastian, does this also work for Outlook 2007 ?

ps: I’m also experiencing another annoyance from the swith from Lotus to outlook. When working with multiple mail boxes, Lotus notes automatically switched the “from field” to display the fact that JohnBlack sent the mail from “New mailbox”.

So what i want is that when i send an email from another mailbox (not my own), Outlook automatically changes the from attribute to JohnBlack on behalf of New mailbox.

Thanks in advance,

By: Marcus Jacob

Marcus Jacob — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:45:25 +0000

Hallo Herr Thomschke,
habe o.a. Makros unter Outlook 2007 ausprobiert. Funktioniert prinzipiell auch. Schade ist nur, das die Schaltflächen aufgrund der Ribbons nicht so schön angeordnet sind wie bei OL2003. Habe Sie vielleicht schon Portierungen auf OL2007?

Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Marcus Jacob