Show Tab "AddIns" in Outlook 2007

Christian Havel · External Since: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 28

Hi,

how can I show the Tab "AddIns" in Outlook 2007 in the eMail inspector?

Thanks Christian

Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlo · External Since: Oct 17, 2003 Posts: 3213

Using code? You can't. The best you can do is use the CommandBarButton for
Tools, Trust Center and call its Execute method. You can't do navigation
from that point. You could try using SendKeys but there's no guarantee it
will work correctly in all situations and it's a real kludge.

More generally there's no way to navigate to a specific tab in the Tools,
Options dialog's tabs either.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"Christian Havel" <ChristianHavel.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B7D54AF8-02FD-487F-B729-663E3C445DB6@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> how can I show the Tab "AddIns" in Outlook 2007 in the eMail inspector?
>
> Thanks Christian

Christian Havel · External Since: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 28

Hi Ken,

thanks for your help. I do not want it to show by using code.

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> Using code? You can't. The best you can do is use the CommandBarButton for
> Tools, Trust Center and call its Execute method. You can't do navigation
> from that point. You could try using SendKeys but there's no guarantee it
> will work correctly in all situations and it's a real kludge.
>
> More generally there's no way to navigate to a specific tab in the Tools,
> Options dialog's tabs either.
>
> --
> Ken Slovak
> [MVP - Outlook]
> http://www.slovaktech.com
> Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
> Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
> http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
>
>
> "Christian Havel" <ChristianHavel.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B7D54AF8-02FD-487F-B729-663E3C445DB6@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > how can I show the Tab "AddIns" in Outlook 2007 in the eMail inspector?
> >
> > Thanks Christian
>
>

Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlo · External Since: Oct 17, 2003 Posts: 3213

I might have misunderstood your question. In the Ribbon the AddIns tab only
shows up if something has added custom UI to the CommandBars collection. So
if you use the old way of adding a button/toolbar/menu/etc. to the Inspector
you get the AddIns tab. If you use the Ribbon you don't get the AddIns tab.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"Christian Havel" <ChristianHavel.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:BA7DEB74-202C-432C-B4C8-7A1EDF248005@microsoft.com...
> Hi Ken,
>
> thanks for your help. I do not want it to show by using code.

Christian Havel · External Since: Jul 03, 2007 Posts: 28

Hi Ken,

the AddIns tab does not appears although I add a commandBar object.

We had the effect, that the "AddIns" tab sometimes appears and sometimes not.

Do you have any idea how to show it manually?

Christian

"Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> I might have misunderstood your question. In the Ribbon the AddIns tab only
> shows up if something has added custom UI to the CommandBars collection. So
> if you use the old way of adding a button/toolbar/menu/etc. to the Inspector
> you get the AddIns tab. If you use the Ribbon you don't get the AddIns tab.
>
> --
> Ken Slovak
> [MVP - Outlook]
> http://www.slovaktech.com
> Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
> Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
> http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
>
>
> "Christian Havel" <ChristianHavel DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:BA7DEB74-202C-432C-B4C8-7A1EDF248005@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > thanks for your help. I do not want it to show by using code.
>
>

Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlo · External Since: Oct 17, 2003 Posts: 3213

I suppose you could try referencing <tab idMso="TabAddIns" visible="true" >
and see if that works, but why would you even want to display that tab? It
makes finding your UI quite difficult, especially if there's more than 1
addin that uses CommandBars for Inspectors.

In the early days of testing Outlook 2007 at one point I had 4 addins
running that didn't use the ribbon and it was almost impossible to find
their UI in the AddIns tab and things were just butt ugly with buttons for
different menus, toolbars and additions to the Standard toolbar all bunched
together in a group for each addin. Yuck!

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

"Christian Havel" <ChristianHavel DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C9D5B3A6-FD30-4B1A-B24D-4121BBEE7A65@microsoft.com...
> Hi Ken,
>
> the AddIns tab does not appears although I add a commandBar object.
>
> We had the effect, that the "AddIns" tab sometimes appears and sometimes
> not.
>
> Do you have any idea how to show it manually?
>
> Christian