OL2000: Next and Previous Unavailable Using Code to Display Item

ID: Q206713

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you display a Microsoft Outlook item using Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), you are not able to use the Next or Previous commands to move to the next or previous items in the folder.

CAUSE

This is a limitation of Microsoft Outlook forms.

MORE INFORMATION

If you manually open the item (without using code), the commands are available and perform as expected.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

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The following sample Visual Basic for Applications code illustrates the problem:


Sub DisplayMailItem()

   Dim ol As Outlook.Application
   Dim olns As Outlook.NameSpace
   Dim MyInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
   Dim MyItems As Outlook.Items

   Set ol = New Outlook.Application
   Set olns = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI")

   ' Set MyInbox to the user's default Inbox.
   Set MyInbox = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

   ' Display the Inbox.
   MyInbox.Display

   ' Set MyItems to the collection of items in the Inbox.
   Set MyItems = MyInbox.Items

   ' Display the second item.
   MyItems(2).Display

End Sub

After running this sample code to display an Outlook message, if you then point to Next or Previous on the View menu, the commands will be unavailable (dimmed).

REFERENCES

For additional information about available resources and answers to commonly asked questions about Microsoft Outlook 2000 solutions, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q146636 OL2000: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol2000 dim grey gray greyed grayed out disabled OL2K

Keywords : kbcode kbprg kbdta OffVBS
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb