Translating Word VBA into Outlook VBA

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Thank you for that. It helps... helps me realize that getting comfortable with VBA for Outlook will be a major undertaking. Sigh! I was hoping translating from one dialect of VBA to the other would be relatively straightforward. My assumption was based on knowledge that many keyboard shortcuts in Word work exactly the same in Outlook messages -- even longstanding bugs in Word commands are faithfully reproduced when they are used in Outlook messages. For example, Rotate Case (Shift + F3) fails when the insertion point (cursor) is positioned one character to the left of a punctuation mark. (For example, in the previous sentence, if the cursor is between "mark" and the period, Shift + F3 fails to change the capitalization of "mark.") Case Rotate also fails when the insertion point is at the end of table cell; instead of the command acting on a word, it acts on the entire cell. These problems affected me enough that I was motivated to create a fix using Word VBA.)

Despite the fact that a faulty Word command is amenable to a VBA repair, I am understanding now that similarities in keyboard interaction in the two programs do not necessarily reflect similarities in the underlying VBA. Lesson learned!

Any resources people can recommend for self-studying Outlook VBA? I am looking for a resource to guide me during trial-and-error experimentation, which is how I learned Word VBA.