#up20171207

A user came to me with a problem:

I need help. Is it possible to write macro to read the sender email address in the email attached to another message?

Yes, it is possible. You can save the attachment to the hard drive to get the message properties or you can use Redemption to read attachment properties, including addresses and other MAPI fields. I have a sample that uses Redemption at GetAtta…

A user had a complaint about categorizing email messages:

When I add a category to a message, every message in the thread thereafter will also be marked with the category. I use categories to set action items for specific messages and automatically propagating the categories to future messages completely defeats my purpose.

Whether or not every message in the thread is categorized depends on…

We occasionally get questions from users who wonder why Outlook doesn’t include calendars for moon phases or sunrise and sunset. While moon phases would be easy to provide, sunrise and sunset times depend very much on where you are located, and it would be difficult for Microsoft to provide these calendars for all but a few cities.

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, along with Outlook on the web for…