What tools should I use?

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I took a *quick* look, so I probably missed the answer in earlier posts, so
please pardon me if this has been answered already... I'm new to VBA, though
I have some beginner-level C++ experience. I'm looking for two pieces of
advice. First, what book(s) are good for beginners who want to learn enough
VB to script simple actions in Outlook 2003? Second, what environmental tools
do I need, or are the VB scripting tools included within O2k3 enough to write
and compile scripts (or is compiling even an issue with VB?)? I appreciate
your thoughts and recommendations!
 
If you're doing stuff just for yourself in Outlook 2003, then VBA should be able to handle most of your needs. See my signature for a book you might find useful.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue-

Thanks for your reply. I looked at the second book in your sig and it talks
about O2k2. Though I'm sure that VB has probably not changed much between
O2k2 and O2k3, odds are good that *something* is different. Are the
differences great enough so that novice programmers like me would need both
books? If it helps, what I'm going to be attempting is a script that I can
run that will search a given folder and save attachments to specific
destination folders based on the file extension. I haven't seen how to do
that with a rule, and I can't select multiple messages and use the "save
attachments" command - that only works with one message at a time...

Mark
 
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