Yes, Outlook is using the Word 2003 editor. I turned it off as
you said, however exactly the same error still occurs at:

olSInsp.SelText = sText

Your mention of asynchronous gave me the idea of putting DoEvents
before that line and .....success!! It now inserts the text and
runs to completion.

One slight issue however, is that the inserted text is in the
same font as the first line of the email message. I will
research this problem and in the meantime if you know how to
insert the text or otherwise change its font so that it's always
in Arial 10 I would be very grateful. These emails are in HTML
format. Obviously this issue doesn't arise for plain text
emails.

Thanks for all your help.

"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote in message
...
Correct, the Inspector COM object exists, but hte window (HWND
in Win32 language) either does not exist or is invisible by the
time you set SelText.
Display is asynchronous, so calling it is not enough, you need
to wait a bit after calling it it.
Are you using the Word editor? Can you turn it off in Tools |
Options | Mail Format?
If you are using a built-in editor, Redemption won't need to
search for a window since inspectors expose the IOleWindow
interface (Word editor window does not).

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"JW" wrote in message
...
It isn't crashing at olSMailItem.GetInspector. It's crashing
at olSInsp.SelText = sText

In any case, I call olSMailItem.Display which opens the mail
message before inserting the text, so the inspector does exist
as a window when I call olSMailItem.GetInspector. I took your
question to mean what windows are open before running the
macro.

I can examine olSMailItem in the debugger and all its
properties are there.

Why does it work successfully if I set a breakpoint at

olSInsp.SelText = sText

step through that one line in the debugger? And why does it
work if put MsgBox "" before the olSInsp.SelText line and run
it without breaking into the debugger? This looks like a
timing issue with automation objects to me. I know nothing
about automation so I'm just guessing here.

Any other thoughts/ideas would be much appreciated.

thanks,

"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote in message
...
Which is why Redemption returns an error - the inspector
simply doesn ot exist as a window when you call
olSMailItem.GetInspector

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"JW" wrote in message
...
Hi,

It's called manually by me clicking Tools - Macro and
running Remove_Attachments.

When I run it, the only Outlook window open is the main
Outlook window.

Thanks,

"Dmitry Streblechenko" wrote in message
...
When is that function called? Is the inspector already open
and visible by then?

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

"JW" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Outlook 2003 SP3, Windows XP Pro SP2.

I've written the VBA code below to remove attachments from
the selected email(s) and insert a list of the filenames
removed at the top of the message using the Redemption
SafeMailItem and SafeInspector objects. However it crashes
at the line:

olSInsp.SelText = sText

With the error:

Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)':
Unspecified Error

If I then click Help it says 'Automation error (Error
440)'.

The program works fine if I step through it in the VBA
debugger, or if I display a message box before the line,
i.e. MsgBox ""

Any ideas where I'm going wrong and how to fix it?

Many thanks.

--------------- Start of code -----------------
Option Explicit

Sub Remove_Attachments()
Dim olMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim olSMailItem As Redemption.SafeMailItem
Dim olAttachments As Outlook.Attachments
Dim sText As String
Dim i As Integer

Const removeAttachments As Boolean = False

Set olSMailItem = New Redemption.SafeMailItem

For Each olMailItem In ActiveExplorer.Selection

If olMailItem.Class = olMail Then

olSMailItem.Item = olMailItem
Set olAttachments = olSMailItem.Attachments

If olAttachments.Count 0 Then

sText = Now() & " removed attachments:" &
vbNewLine & " " & vbNewLine

If removeAttachments Then

'Delete each attachment and create the
text string to insert in the message

While olAttachments.Count 0
sText = sText &
olAttachments(1).fileName & vbNewLine
olAttachments(1).Delete
Wend

Else

'Testing only. Don't delete
attachments - just create the text string to insert in the
message

For i = 1 To olAttachments.Count
sText = sText &
olAttachments(i).fileName & vbNewLine
Next
End If

olSMailItem.Display

InsertText olSMailItem, sText

olSMailItem.Close olSave

End If
End If
Next

End Sub

Private Sub InsertText(olSMailItem As
Redemption.SafeMailItem, sText As String)
Dim olSInsp As Redemption.SafeInspector
Dim olEditButton As Office.CommandBarButton

'On Error Resume Next

'Edit message

Set olEditButton =
Application.ActiveInspector.CommandBars.FindContro l(,
5604)
olEditButton.Execute

Set olSInsp = New Redemption.SafeInspector
olSInsp.Item = olSMailItem.GetInspector

'The next line crashes with:
' Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)':
' Unspecified Error
'Click Help and it says 'Automation error (Error 440)'
olSInsp.SelText = sText

Set olEditButton = Nothing
Set olSInsp = Nothing

End Sub
--------------- End of code -----------------