Comments on: Outlook Item to Task Macro

By: John Plummer

John Plummer — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:00:28 +0000

The From and Subject are already in the code. I imagine something along the lines of:
olTask.Body = olTask.Body + “From: ” + olItem.SenderName + vbNewLine
olTask.Body = olTask.Body + “Sent: ” + olItem.SentOn + vbNewLine
olTask.Body = olTask.Body + “Subject: ” + olItem.Subject + vbNewLine + vbNewLine
olTask.Body = olTask.Body + olItem.Body

should work. (not tried it)

By: Bernardo

Bernardo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:26:18 +0000

Hello, thanks for posting this.
The code works fine for me. However, I would like to include also the header of the message (from, sent,subject), as it would be included if I dragged and dropped on the task button. Do you have any ideas on how to do it?

Thanks!

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:38:11 +0000

Hi Charles,

I cannot run the macro OL 2003.

Is it possible to used a adopted macro in the 2003 OL version as well?

Thanks,

By: Priit

Priit — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:37:24 +0000

to Dwayne and John
you have to rewrite quotation marks and apostrophes – then it works without errors.

By: antonisx4

antonisx4 — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:33:06 +0000

I have copied the code for Outlook Item to Task Macro but it’s giving me an error when I am trying to compile it and of course is not working. what can I do to fix it?

By: John Plummer

John Plummer — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:11:28 +0000

Smaran,
It should bring up the task form. Are you sure it is running? You could try setting a breakpoint in the macro and see if that gets hit.

I have had something similar happen in the past and a reboot solved it so may be worth trying that first.

By: Smaran

Smaran — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:20:36 +0000

I run your code. it is not giving any errors. But I cant see the tesks created in the Outlook task list.

By: John Plummer

John Plummer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:36:43 +0000

Andrew, I guess that would be possible but I doubt it would be simple. You would be better off asking the question on http://www.outlookcode.com/.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:35:20 +0000

I’m trying to create an If statement or some line of code that would allow me to keep the email if I exit out of the macro without saving, but would delete the item if I saved and closed it as a task. Any ideas?

By: John Plummer

John Plummer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:31:54 +0000

Hi Dwayne,
I would check that copying and pasting from html has not introduced and character substitutions, especially the double quotes.
It may be worth copying and pasting into notepad then copying and pasting from there as a text editor as an intermediate stage can often weed out things like smart quotes.

If that doesn’t work it may be worth posting the question on http://www.outlookcode.com/