Re: [O] org-outlook with Outlook 2010 on Windows 7

[AW]

Am Donnerstag, 4. April 2013, 14:59:55 schrieb Per Per Kulseth Dahl:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to get org-outlook to work without any success. I
> am running Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. Yes, I wish didn't have to.
> 
> I have put the VBA code generated by org-outlook-generate-vba into
> Outlook and then I changed the org-outlook-location to "c:/Program
> Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office14/OUTLOOK.EXE" in org-outlook.el.
> I didn't seem to work when I tried to change it through
> customize-group.
> 
> I apparently get a link into an org document, but when click this link
> I get "ShellExecute failed: w32 error 2147749890".

Hi Per,

did you get this solved? I'm interested, I get the same error after my PC at 
the office has been migrated to Outlook 2010 (Emacs 24.2, org-mode 7.9.4, 
Windows 7). 

Regards,
Alexander


> 
> I have set up org-protocol according to the Org Manual
> (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html).
> 
> I later came across this setup:
> http://denihow.com/can-i-create-a-link-to-a-specific-email-message-in-outloo
> k/
> 
> Which seems much simpler and looks to be sufficient for what I want,
> but this doesn't work either. It seems there is a problem with
> 
> Dim doClipboard As New DataObject
> 
> I have tried to search for help on VBA, that I have no prior
> experience with, for a clue as for what the problem is, but that has
> so far been a very frustrating experience. I am therefore hoping
> someone here has a working setup with Outlook 2010 and could point me
> in the right direction. I doesn't have to be with org-outlook, I just
> want have working links to Outlook messages in my org files.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Per