OL97: VBScript Example Returns the Current User Name

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Creating the Form and CommandButton Control

1. From the Inbox, on the File menu, point to New and click Mail message.
2. On the message form Tools menu, click "Design Outlook Form" to enter the form design mode.
3. Click the form (P.2) tab, and on the Form menu, click "Display This Page."
4. On the Form menu, click "Control Toolbox." Drag the Command Button to the form.

Creating the VBScript to Return the User Name

1. On the Form menu, click "View Code" to open the VBScript editor.
   
   NOTE: In the following sample code, an underscore (_) at the end of a line is used as a line-continuation character. Remove the underscore from the end of the line when re-creating this code in VBScript.
2. Type the following code into the editor window:

      'Sub routine that runs when you click CommandButton1
      Sub CommandButton1_Click()
         'Message box that returns the current user's name
         MsgBox "The current user is " & _
            Application.GetNameSpace("MAPI").CurrentUser
      End Sub
   						

3. On the Script Editor File menu, click Close.
4. On the form Tools menu, click "Design Outlook Form" to exit the form design mode.

If you click CommandButton1, you will see a message box that contains the current user's name.