Michael, in general it works this way:

Dim Bnt as Office.CommandbarButton
Dim Bars as Office.Commandbars
Dim BtnID&

' ref to the folder toolbars
Set Bars=Application.ActiveExplorer.Commandbars

' find a specific button by its ID
' example, ID for the Reply button
BtnID = 354
Set Bnt=Bars.FindControl(,BtnID)
Btn.Execute

If you don't know the ID of the button you're looking for, you may use
OutlookSpy from www.dimastr.com for finding it out.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

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Am Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:25:20 +0200 schrieb Michael Moser:

VanguardLH wrote:
Michael Moser wrote:

Outlooks Rules Wizard among other actions also offer an option
"perform a custom action".
If one selects that, however, one gets a selection box (apparently
supposed to be a list of selectable actions, which - however - is
empty, i.e. not a single action to choose from).

Where/how can one define such custom actions? I would like to press a
specific button (or the equivalent of the command behind that
button) on those emails.

Michael

You will have to define those custom actions. Learn VBA. Visit
http://www.outlookcode.com to get some examples.


Since I am not a VBA expert: Would someone by chance be willing to share
a code snippet that allows to programmatically presses a specific
Toolbar button (or call the corresponding action)?

Michael