Macro VBA to get selected text in Outlook 2003 - vba

Question

I am trying to use this code snippet to get the selected text in outlook 2003
Sub SelectedTextDispaly()
On Error Resume Next
Err.Clear
Dim oText As TextRange
''# Get an object reference to the selected text range.
Set oText = ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange
''# Check to see whether error occurred when getting text object
''# reference.
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
MsgBox "Invalid Selection. Please highlight some text " _
& "or select a text frame and run the macro again.", _
vbExclamation
End
End If
''# Display the selected text in a message box.
If oText.Text = "" Then
MsgBox "No Text Selected.", vbInformation
Else
MsgBox oText.Text, vbInformation
End If
End Sub
When running this macro I get the error
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Microsoft Visual Basic
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Compile error:
User-defined type not defined
Do I need to add any references to fix this up?

Answer 1

#Kusleika, I tried the option you had suggested and still the same errors came up.
Thanks for the help
May be I had not phrased my question in the proper way
Some more googling revealed that its not possible to get the selected text of a mail in preview pane. http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forumarchives/outlookprogram_VisualBasica/Aug2005/post23481044.asp
So I had to adjust the requirement so that I can do an action from an mail item window.
The following code helped me (had to make some changes to suit my needs)
Sub Blue_Code_Highlight()
Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim insp As Outlook.Inspector
Set insp = Application.ActiveInspector
If insp.CurrentItem.Class = olMail Then
Set msg = insp.CurrentItem
If insp.EditorType = olEditorHTML Then
Set hed = msg.GetInspector.HTMLEditor
Set rng = hed.Selection.createRange
rng.pasteHTML "<font style='color: blue; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;'>" & rng.Text & "</font><br/>"
End If
End If
Set insp = Nothing
Set rng = Nothing
Set hed = Nothing
Set msg = Nothing
End Sub
Source:http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.aspx?forumid=4&messageid=26992
#Kusleika thanks for the help, can I close this thread. Pls let me know.

Answer 2

Just in case someone is using the word editor instead of html, you can also insert this part:
If insp.EditorType = olEditorWord Then
Set hed = msg.GetInspector.WordEditor
Set word = hed.Application
Set rng = word.Selection
rng.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"
rng.Font.Size = 10
rng.Font.Color = wdColorBlack
End If
to get similar when word is the editor. i tried to paste this into a comment on the accepted answer, but it destroyed the formatting and was pretty useless, so posting as an answer.

Answer 3

Dim oText As Range
TextRange is a property of the TextFrame object. It returns a Range object. There is no TextRange object.