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SYMPTOMSYou cannot use a Microsoft Word for Windows macro to start version 3.0, 3.0b, or 3.2 of Microsoft Mail for Windows minimized with the Shell command. For example, when you use the following query, Mail launches, but it is not minimized. shell "c:\msmail\msmail.exe", 0 CAUSE
To find out if it should launch minimized, Mail checks for the flag
SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE, which is ordinal 7. However, the Word for Windows
Shell command only passes ordinals 0 to 4 to another application. The
Shell command passing out a 0 is equivalent to sending the flag
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED, but Mail does not check that flag.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in versions 3.0, 3.0b, and 3.2 of Microsoft Mail for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. Additional query words: 3.00 3.00b 3.20
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