Get email prefix char from VBA (2002)

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Clicking Tools | Options | Preferences | Email options, i can set the “Prefix each line wth” character.

Is there a way to get this via VBA code?

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Hi Peter,
As far as I know you can’t retrieve this directly from the Outlook Object Model (there still aren’t any Dialog objects to work with). You can get it, but it’s a little convoluted! If the Actions(“Reply”).ReplyStyle = olReplyTickOriginalText (value 1000), then you can look in the registry under HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookPreferences – if there’s a key called PrefixText then you want the value of that. If the key does not exist, then it’s the default prefix – i.e. > .
Hope that helps.

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Great! Thanks Rory, for the idea of looking in the directory (and in this case, the place to look)!

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