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Explorer.Activate Method

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Outlook Developer Reference

Activates an explorer window by bringing it to the foreground and setting keyboard focus.

Syntax

expression.Activate

expression   A variable that represents an Explorer object.

Example

This Microsoft Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications example responds to the NewMail event by activating the explorer window. The sample code must be placed in a class module, and the Initialize_handlers routine must be called before the event procedure can be called by Microsoft Outlook.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Public WithEvents myOlExp As Outlook.Explorer

Public Sub Initialize_handlers()
Set myOlExp = Application.ActiveExplorer
End Sub


Private Sub NewMail()
myOlExp.Activate
End Sub

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