Create Rule to clear "From"

[Beowulf005]

Looking for help in creating a rule to clear the "From" box as I need to make sure the replies I send are from my mailbox not the shared. Outlook 2007

Thankx

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[kjv1611]

If you're still working on this, any success yet? Any ideas? Any more detail?

My initial thought would be to possibly use VBA to do this with a separate button? But I'm not sure what you are wanting to do...

I believe the rules are typically used to control email as it comes in... not in the creating of a mail message.. that might be where you've not had any replies....

AND it could just be b/c of the holidays, at least here in the U.S. I know I didn't hardly touch anything like tek-tips last week, and this is my first day back at work in a little over a week.

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[Beowulf005]

No luck on this yet. Think I have tried every rule possible. Goal is to have a process run as I hit send that clears the "From" field so it uses my default profile instead of the shared mailbox address.

When frustrated remember, in the computer world there is almost always a backdoor.

 

[kjv1611]

I think - I could be wrong - that what you'll need to do is this:

1. Create a VBA macro to change the From setting.
2. Save that VBA macro as a "custom action"
3. In the Rules Wizard, when you get to the part telling Outlook what to do, tell it to "perform a custom action", which then you would point to your VBA macro.

At least that's what seems to be a solution I can see. I could be wrong, however, as I've not tried that to date.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me