SpellingAndGrammar window does not stay

Question

Hello

I am calling SpellingAndGrammar in my Add-In (VSTO - Outlook AddIn) as below.

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Dim

offCBs As Office.CommandBars = Me.Application.ActiveInspector().CommandBars

offCBs.GetType().InvokeMember(

"ExecuteMso", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, Nothing, offCBs, New Object() {"SpellingAndGrammar"})

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Problem is that it won't stay until i complete the spell check. Spell Check window shows up, automatically closes and next line of code is executed.

Any idea how i can make the spell check stay until i complete it?

Thanks

 

Answer 1

maybe there are no error to correct so it closes? When are you invoking that code?

Answer 2

No there are errors to correct. I can see Spell Checket  showing words to be corrected but it wont stay.

I have a command bar button (named - "Imaging") added in outlook. When composing a new email, you click on this Command Bar button - Imaging. What it does is to send the email and invoke a windows form which will help the user to take the sent email and put it in the image database. Before sending the email i am calling ExecuteMso on SpellingAndGrammar as the user wants to have spell check invoked. (Option to spell check before sending the email is enabled in Outlook.)

Thanks

Answer 3

Hello,

Instead of invoking the command, add a reference to Word's interop and invoke the method:

Imports Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
'...
CType(Me.Appication.ActiveInspector.WordEditor, Word.Document).CheckSpeclling(...)

The code line above uses the fact that Word is the email editor in Outlook 2007-2010.

Does it help?

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Regards from Belarus (GMT + 3),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader

Answer 4

Hi Andrei

Word is not the default editor in my outlook. In order for your code to work, should i make the default editor as word in Outlook/

Thanks

 

Answer 5

> Word is not the default editor in my outlook. In order for your code to work, should i make the default editor as word in Outlook/

Sorry? Are you using Outlook 2000-2003? If you use Outlook 2007-2010, then in what way the code doesn't work? Exceptions? Inspector.WordEditor returns Nothing (null in C#)?

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Regards from Belarus (GMT + 3),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader

Answer 6

Hi V2011,

 

Thanks for posting in the MSDN Forum.

 

Would you please clarify the questions that Andrei asked? I think that is important for further research.

 

Have a good day,

 

Tom

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Tom Xu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 7

Hello Andrei and Tom

I apologize for not posting the reply right away. Everything is working fine now. I am able to invoke the SpellChecker as suggested by Andrei. I got this working last week.

Thanks a lot for the Help Andrei.