Quote Originally Posted by gmayor View Post
The problem is undoubtedly the use of CommandBars code.

It is difficult to see the point of your process or why you need to remove chr(74) - Upper case J from the message, as the process doesn't appear to work here in 2010 either.

If we can assume that you are running the code from Outlook VBA and not from another Office product then the following should create a reply to the currently selected message and copy the content to the clipboard. I can see that it doesn't go quite far enough, but you will need to explain the process in more detail to get a handle on it.
Hi Graham,

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at this for me. I'm far from a VBA programmer, just good at stringing useful code(s) together to sometimes make a workable macro. Here's why I put this one together:

We have a system that requires copious notes that are either hand-typed in or copy/pasted emails. Our system can't handle any smiley faces or other various graphic icons, my work-around for this was to remove chr(74) and replace it with a lower case J. This seems to get rid of the pesky icons that cause an error in our system. I'm sure there's a better way to go about this but it was all I could come up with.

As for the rest of the macro, I simply need to assign it to a Quick Access Toolbar macro command that appears in the toolbar of any open email that when the toolbar button is pushed:

1) Hits Reply to the open email
2) Clears the clipboard
3) Select All and Copy
4) Close the email

Hopefully this helps clarify my goal. Thanks again for your gracious help.

Brent