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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

How To: avoid sending emails without a subject line in Outlook

Do you often forget to enter a subject in outgoing email?

Does the recipeint get the message and perhaps dismiss it as possible spam because the subject line is blank?

The subject line in email is the trigger to your contact as to whether to open the message now, later or not at all.

Here's how to never forget a subject line again, that's right, you're going to learn to program!

To avoid this, just follow the simple steps mentioned below and see the result.
Here are the steps: -

1. Open your Outlook,

2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic Editor and then Press Ctrl+R which in turn open Project-Project 1 (left side)

3. On the Left Pane, one can see “Microsoft Outlook Objects” or “Project1“, expand this. Now
one can see the “ThisOutLookSession“.

4. Double click on “ThisOutLookSession“. It will open up a Code Pane on the right hand side.

5. Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane (Code Pane) and save it

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim strSubject As String
strSubject = Item.Subject
If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then
Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?”
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End Sub

6. Click Save and then Close the visual Basic Editor

Now whenever u try to send an wmail without a subject line, a pop-up will remind you of the blank subject line and ask if you still want to send!

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