[How to] Set reminder of Empty Subject line in Outlook
Friends, many a times we send a mail from Microsoft outlook without a subject line. This is quite ok if the mail was sent to some friends but really not good if the mail is official and the intended recipients are your manager, customer, manager’s manager, whole team etc. So, what could be the solution.
Well, the mails which you already sent can be recalled via ‘Opening the sent mail’->Menu option ‘Actions’->Recall, hoping that the mail has not read yet which generally doesn’t happen because we may realize the fact of empty subject line after a while.
So, what should we do to ensure that this doesn’t happen in future. After all prevention is always better that cure. Now this can be done very easily by setting a reminder of empty subject line in Outlook. Below are the steps :
1)Open your Outlook.
2)Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic Editor and then Press Ctrl+R which in turn open Project-Project 1. Here you can see ‘Microsoft Outlook Objects’ or ‘Project1′ as shown below
3)Expand ‘Project1′ to reach ‘ThisOutLookSession’.
4) Double click on ‘ThisOutLookSession’. It will open up a Code Pane on the right hand side. Now just copy and Paste the following code in the right pane (Code Pane), save it and close.
Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim strSubject As String
strSubject = Item.Subject
If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then
Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Continue anyways???”
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End Sub
Its done. So, from now onwards whenever you try to send a mail without specifying anything in subject line , below pop-up will be displayed to remind you of the blank subject.
Thats it for now friends.
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Hi,
I tried doing this but this was not working actually…
Also clarify is it to be done 1 time or for everytime u login to MS Outlook?
Hi Gaurav,
This needs to be done 1 time only
If your are getting syntax error(appearing in red) for below lines in after pasting the code in VB editor
Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Continue anyways???”
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo
Then just delete the 4 quote marks one by one and put them again. The syntax error should disappear.