OL98: Next and Previous Unavailable Using Code to Display Item

ID: Q180974

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 98

SYMPTOMS

When you display a Microsoft Outlook 98 item using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications or Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), you are not able to use the Next or Previous commands to move to the following or previous items in the folder.

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 NameSpace
      Dim MyInbox As Object
      Dim MyItems As Object
      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 more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 98, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   Article-ID: Q180826
   Title     : OL98: Resources for Custom Forms and Programming

   Article-ID: Q182349
   Title     : OL98: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol98 dim grey gray greyed grayed out disabled

Keywords          : kbcode kbprg OffVBS 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999