Am Montag, 15. April 2013, 13:57:37 schrieb AW 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
OK, it was not that difficult. There seem to be many solutions. I'm satisfied with a simple one, discussed here: http://superuser.com/questions/71786/can-i-create-a-link-to-a-specific-email-message-in-outlook It was sufficient to change a line to meet the demands of the new outlook version: (w32-shell-execute "open" "Path/to/OUTLOOK.EXE" (concat "/select " "outlook:" id) -- stolen from a comment there.