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ColumnFormat.Label Property

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Outlook Developer Reference

Returns or sets a String value that represents the column label and tooltip displayed for the property to which the ColumnFormat object is associated. Read/write.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Outlook 2007

Syntax

expression.Label

expression   A variable that represents a ColumnFormat object.

Remarks

For built-in Outlook properties, the default value for this property is the localized name of the property. For custom Outlook properties, the default value for this property is the name of the property.

The value of this property applies only to the tooltip for Outlook properties in which the column header is represented as an icon.

Example

The following Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) example iterates through the ViewFields collection of the current TableView object, displaying the label and XML schema names of each ViewField object in the collection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Private Sub DisplayTableViewFields()
    Dim objTableView As TableView
    Dim objViewField As ViewField
    Dim strOutput As String
    
    If Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentView.ViewType = _
        olTableView Then
        
        ' Obtain a TableView object reference for the
        ' current table view.
        Set objTableView = _
            Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentView
        
        ' Iterate through the ViewFields collection for
        ' the table view, obtaining the label and the
        ' XML schema name for each field included in
        ' the view.
        For Each objViewField In objTableView.ViewFields
            With objViewField
                strOutput = strOutput & .ColumnFormat.Label & _
                    " (" & .ViewXMLSchemaName & ")" & vbCrLf
            End With
        Next
        
        ' Display a dialog box containing the concatenated
        ' view field information.
        MsgBox strOutput
    End If
End Sub

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