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Outlook 2010 Developer Reference

Outlook Object Model Reference

MailItem Object

Properties

MailItem.Actions Property (Outlook)

MailItem.AlternateRecipientAllowed Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Application Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Attachments Property (Outlook)

MailItem.AutoForwarded Property (Outlook)

MailItem.AutoResolvedWinner Property (Outlook)

MailItem.BCC Property (Outlook)

MailItem.BillingInformation Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Body Property (Outlook)

MailItem.BodyFormat Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Categories Property (Outlook)

MailItem.CC Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Class Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Companies Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Conflicts Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ConversationID Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ConversationIndex Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ConversationTopic Property (Outlook)

MailItem.CreationTime Property (Outlook)

MailItem.DeferredDeliveryTime Property (Outlook)

MailItem.DeleteAfterSubmit Property (Outlook)

MailItem.DownloadState Property (Outlook)

MailItem.EntryID Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ExpiryTime Property (Outlook)

MailItem.FlagRequest Property (Outlook)

MailItem.FormDescription Property (Outlook)

MailItem.GetInspector Property (Outlook)

MailItem.HTMLBody Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Importance Property (Outlook)

MailItem.InternetCodepage Property (Outlook)

MailItem.IsConflict Property (Outlook)

MailItem.IsMarkedAsTask Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ItemProperties Property (Outlook)

MailItem.LastModificationTime Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Links Property (Outlook)

MailItem.MarkForDownload Property (Outlook)

MailItem.MessageClass Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Mileage Property (Outlook)

MailItem.NoAging Property (Outlook)

MailItem.OriginatorDeliveryReportRequested Property (Outlook)

MailItem.OutlookInternalVersion Property (Outlook)

MailItem.OutlookVersion Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Parent Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Permission Property (Outlook)

MailItem.PermissionService Property (Outlook)

MailItem.PermissionTemplateGuid Property (Outlook)

MailItem.PropertyAccessor Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReadReceiptRequested Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReceivedByEntryID Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReceivedByName Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReceivedOnBehalfOfEntryID Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReceivedOnBehalfOfName Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReceivedTime Property (Outlook)

MailItem.RecipientReassignmentProhibited Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Recipients Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReminderOverrideDefault Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReminderPlaySound Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReminderSet Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReminderSoundFile Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReminderTime Property (Outlook)

MailItem.RemoteStatus Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReplyRecipientNames Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ReplyRecipients Property (Outlook)

MailItem.RetentionExpirationDate Property (Outlook)

MailItem.RetentionPolicyName Property (Outlook)

MailItem.RTFBody Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Saved Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SaveSentMessageFolder Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Sender Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SenderEmailAddress Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SenderEmailType Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SenderName Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SendUsingAccount Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Sensitivity Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Sent Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SentOn Property (Outlook)

MailItem.SentOnBehalfOfName Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Session Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Size Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Subject Property (Outlook)

MailItem.Submitted Property (Outlook)

MailItem.TaskCompletedDate Property (Outlook)

MailItem.TaskDueDate Property (Outlook)

MailItem.TaskStartDate Property (Outlook)

MailItem.TaskSubject Property (Outlook)

MailItem.To Property (Outlook)

MailItem.ToDoTaskOrdinal Property (Outlook)

MailItem.UnRead Property (Outlook)

MailItem.UserProperties Property (Outlook)

MailItem.VotingOptions Property (Outlook)

MailItem.VotingResponse Property (Outlook)

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MailItem.BodyFormat Property (Outlook)

Office 2010

Office 2013

Returns or sets an OlBodyFormat constant indicating the format of the body text. Read/write.

expression .BodyFormat

expression A variable that represents a MailItem object.

The body text format determines the standard used to display the text of the message. Microsoft Outlook provides three body text format options: Plain Text, Rich Text (RTF), and HTML.

All text formatting will be lost when the BodyFormat property is switched from RTF to HTML and vice-versa.

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example creates a new MailItem object and sets the BodyFormat property to olFormatHTML. The body text of the e-mail item will now appear in HTML format.

Sub CreateHTMLMail() 
 
 'Creates a new e-mail item and modifies its properties. 
 
 Dim objMail As MailItem 
 
 
 
 'Create mail item 
 
 Set objMail = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) 
 
 With objMail 
 
 'Set body format to HTML 
 
 .BodyFormat = olFormatHTML 
 
 .HTMLBody = "<HTML><H2>The body of this message will appear in HTML.</H2><BODY>Type the message text here. </BODY></HTML>" 
 
 .Display 
 
 End With 
 
End Sub

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MailItem Object Members

MailItem Object

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