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OLE Programmatic Identifiers (Outlook)

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You can use an OLE programmatic identifier (sometimes called a ProgID) to create an Automation object. The following tables list OLE programmatic identifiers for ActiveX controls, Microsoft Office applications, and Microsoft Office Web Components.

ActiveX Controls

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

ActiveX Controls

To create the ActiveX controls listed in the following table, use the corresponding OLE programmatic identifier.

To create this Microsoft Forms 2.0 control

Use this identifier

CheckBox

Forms.CheckBox.1

ComboBox

Forms.ComboBox.1

CommandButton

Forms.CommandButton.1

Frame

Forms.Frame.1

Image

Forms.Image.1

Label

Forms.Label.1

ListBox

Forms.ListBox.1

MultiPage

Forms.MultiPage.1

OptionButton

Forms.OptionButton.1

ScrollBar

Forms.ScrollBar.1

SpinButton

Forms.SpinButton.1

TabStrip

Forms.TabStrip.1

TextBox

Forms.TextBox.1

ToggleButton

Forms.ToggleButton.1

Microsoft Access

To create the Microsoft Access objects listed in the following table, use one of the corresponding OLE programmatic identifiers. If you use an identifier without a version number suffix, you create an object in the most recent version of Access available on the machine where the macro is running.

To create this object

Use one of these identifiers

Application

Access.Application

CurrentData

Access.CodeData, Access.CurrentData

CurrentProject

Access.CodeProject, Access.CurrentProject

DefaultWebOptions

Access.DefaultWebOptions

Microsoft Excel

To create the Microsoft Excel objects listed in the following table, use one of the corresponding OLE programmatic identifiers. If you use an identifier without a version number suffix, you create an object in the most recent version of Excel available on the machine where the macro is running.

To create this object

Use one of these identifiers

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Application

Excel.Application

Workbook

Excel.AddIn

Workbook

Excel.Chart

Returns a workbook containing two worksheets; one for the chart and one for its data. The chart worksheet is the active worksheet.

Workbook

Excel.Sheet

Returns a workbook with one worksheet.

Microsoft Graph

To create the Microsoft Graph objects listed in the following table, use one of the corresponding OLE programmatic identifiers. If you use an identifier without a version number suffix, you create an object in the most recent version of Graph available on the machine where the macro is running.

To create this object

Use one of these identifiers

Application

MSGraph.Application

Chart

MSGraph.Chart

Microsoft Outlook

To create the Microsoft Outlook object given in the following table, use one of the corresponding OLE programmatic identifiers. If you use an identifier without a version number suffix, you create an object in the most recent version of Outlook available on the machine where the macro is running.

To create this object

Use one of these identifiers

Application

Outlook.Application

To create the ActiveX controls that are specific for Outlook forms, as listed in the following table, use the corresponding OLE programmatic identifier.

To create this Outlook control

Use this identifier

OlkBusinessCardControl

Outlook.OlkBusinessCardControl

OlkCategory

Outlook.OlkCategoryStrip

OlkCheckBox

Outlook.OlkCheckBox

OlkComboBox

Outlook.OlkComboBox

OlkCommandButton

Outlook.OlkCommandButton

OlkContactPhoto

Outlook.OlkContactPhoto

OlkDateControl

Outlook.OlkDateControl

OlkFrameHeader

Outlook.OlkFrameHeader

OlkInfoBar

Outlook.OlkInfoBar

OlkLabel

Outlook.OlkLabel

OlkListBox

Outlook.OlkListBox

OlkOptionButton

Outlook.OlkOptionButton

OlkPageControl

Outlook.OlkPageControl

OlkSenderPhoto

Outlook.OlkSenderPhoto

OlkTextBox

Outlook.OlkTextBox

OlkTimeControl

Outlook.OlkTimeControl

OlkTimeZoneControl

Outlook.OlkTimeZone

Microsoft PowerPoint

To create the Microsoft PowerPoint object given in the following table, use one of the corresponding OLE programmatic identifiers. If you use an identifier without a version number suffix, you create an object in the most recent version of PowerPoint available on the machine where the macro is running.

To create this object

Use one of these identifiers

Application

PowerPoint.Application

Microsoft Word

To create the Microsoft Word objects listed in the following table, use one of the corresponding OLE programmatic identifiers. If you use an identifier without a version number suffix, you create an object in the most recent version of Word available on the machine where the macro is running.

To create this object

Use one of these identifiers

Application

Word.Application

Document

Word.Document, Word.Template

Global

Word.Global