Can Outlook do this?

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Can Outlook be modified through the use of VBA to add one or two entries to
the Navigation Pane. These additions would be a timesheet and a project
navigator, and I would also like to modify the way in which tasks are used.
I am currently trying to begin understanding Visual Studio to construct this
as a stand-alone app when it occurred to me that it would be better suited to
run from within Outlook.

Should I switch gears and begin studying VBA in Outlook or is this an
impossibility?

TIA
Jeffrey
 
You can't do what you want with the Navigation pane. You need new specs.

You are almost always better off running in-process with Outlook, either in
the Outlook VBA for personal code or a COM addin for code to be distributed.
Unless your code has to run standalone there is no advantage to running it
in a separate process.
 
Thank you for your response.

So are you saying that I should or should not attempt this? Your first line
says that I cannot add entries to the navigation pane while the rest explains
that it is better to run from within Outlook. What is it meant that I 'need
new specs'?

Please excuse my ignorance if these are well known programming terms. I am
quite new to all of this.

Thanks again,
Jeffrey
 
I'm saying forget about trying to do anything with the Navigation Pane at
all.

The second paragraph was an answer to what I thought you were asking about
coding for Outlook. In general it's always better to run within Outlook
(Outlook VBA or a COM addin) than outside of Outlook in a standalone
program. However each circumstance determines how your code should be
written.
 
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