Determine if Outlook is invisible and opened from VBA or Mail Merge

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Determine if Outlook is invisible and opened from VBA or Mail Merge
 
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I have an Outlook Add-in that listens to the ItemSend event and shows a dialog window. There is an issue when Outlook is opened silently from VBA or Mail Merge where the dialog window is indeed open but is not visible or clickable. It only shows if minimizing e.g. Word if using Mail Merge from there. It looks like setting ShowInTaskbar = true on the dialog window solves the issue for these cases. However, I only want to use ShowInTaskbar = true in these cases when Outlook is invisible.

Do you happen to know how to determine if Outlook is run in "invisible mode"?
I was thinking something in the line of receiving the active window and if it is null assume it is indeed in invisible mode. Ref last reply in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41967734/test-if-outlook-is-running-in-background-or-visible.
Posted 23 Jul, 2018 00:23:35 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello,

Explorers.Count is zero in this scenario. This is also the case if Outlook isn't started and you use Send to | Mail Recipient from the Windows Explorer.


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 23 Jul, 2018 04:48:30 Top
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Thanks so much. This seems to work great.
Posted 23 Jul, 2018 08:00:18 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Welcome!


Andrei Smolin
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Posted 23 Jul, 2018 10:22:50 Top