MailItem.ShowCategoriesDialog Method

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Outlook Developer Reference

Displays the Show Categories dialog box, which allows you to select categories that correspond to the subject of the item.

Syntax

expression.ShowCategoriesDialog

expression   A variable that represents a MailItem object.

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example creates a new mail item, displays the item on the screen, and opens up the Show Categories dialog box.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub MailItem()
    'Creates a mail item to access ShowCategoriesDialog
    Dim olmyMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
    'Create mail item
    Set olmyMailItem = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)

olmyMailItem.Body = "Can you help me with these sales figures."
olmyMailItem.Recipients.Add ("Jeff Smith")
olmyMailItem.Subject = "Sales Reports"
'Display the item
olmyMailItem.Display
'Display the Show categories dialog
olmyMailItem.<strong>ShowCategoriesDialog</strong>



End Sub

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