Can I do that?

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Jack

Hello,
I do not use Outlook nor I know how to program it.
Is it possible by using a script do the following:
1. When user clicks Reply to the email message or uses the hotkey <Ctrl +
R>:
the script will launch the external application with the 'From' field as a
trailing parameter
and do not launch message reply window at all.

Is that possible?
All your thoughts are very welcome.
 
No one?
I do not ask for the code.
I am asking if that is possible.
If it is, then I will learn how to script.
 
I am not a heavy Outlook coder and am not an Outlook MVP,
but my expectation is that it is possible. I would be
doing it in VBA code, not in VB script, but from VBA code
you can call an external program and pass information to
it - system accountants (like me) do this a lot with Excel
and I imagine that Outlook should be able to handle the VB
code as well. I have only done a small amount of coding
for Outlook though.

In Excel I'd use:
Application.ActivateMicrosoftApp xlMicrosoftAccess
if it were another Microsoft program (e.g. Excel to
Access) you were sending to.
And if it were a 3rd party app then something like:
OtherApp = Shell("TheSoftwareYouAreSendingTo.exe", 1)
AppActivate OtherApp
Application.SendKeys(FromField)
(where FromField holds the data you wish to send)
Don't quote me on this for outlook, but we send from Excel
to Oracle using SendKeys all the time, so I imagine that
you can do the same sort of thing in Outlook.
Sorry, but I don't have the code on me in this office to
give you a full code sample.

Regards,
Kai
 
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