What's the best language to automate this Windows task involving Outlook and Excel? [closed]

Answer 1

I asked Best “official” scripting language for Windows programmers, and the answer was mostly PowerShell. Here's a link I found automating Outlook: using PowerShell for Outlook automation.

$outlook = new-object -com Outlook.Application

Look at the subjects of the first 5 emails you sent

$sentMail = $outlook.Session.GetDefaultFolder(5) # == olFolderSentMail 
$sentMail.Items | select -first 5 TaskSubject    

And Excel: PowerShell and Excel.

$a = new-object -comobject excel.application

How do I change the value of a specified cell?

$a.ActiveSheet.Range("B1").Value2 = "y"