Custom button, Outlook 2010

Question

Just had Office 2010 installed on work computer (up from 2007).
I had used a custom toolbar in Outlook 2007 and had made my own "buttons" to do repeated tasks (most the buttons linked to other network locations). 2007 Outlook you could make a custom button, then right click on it and "Customize" and provide a hyperlink
(to web, or to files or to network locations etc).
That functionality seems to be gone in Outlook 2010...or am I missing it somewhere? I am in Outlook all day and loved being able to immediatly hit a button that would open a network location or an IE URL.
I have searched extensively online, but cant find any reference to this for Outlook 2010.
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Can you/anyone provide the appropriate code to open a URL within the Outlook frame - not a separate browser window?  I'd like to create a ribbon bar button which opens a URL within the Outlook frame.
Thanks,
Susan
Try this:
Sub OpenURLinOutlook()
Dim olNameSpace As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim webFolder As Outlook.Folder
Set olNameSpace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = olNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
On Error Resume Next
Set webFolder = olFolder.Folders("OpenURLinOutlook")
On Error GoTo 0
If webFolder Is Nothing Then
Set webFolder = olFolder.Folders.Add("OpenURLinOutlook")
End If
webFolder.WebViewURL = "http://www.bing.com"
webFolder.WebViewOn = True
Set Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder = webFolder
Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder.Display
End Sub
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