Outlook AppointmentItem - How do I programmatically add RTF to its Body?

Question

I would like to set the Body of an AppointmentItem to a string of RTF that contains an embedded image. Setting Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outl

Answer 1

The best info I have seen on this is as per this answer: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/b41acf6f-71c1-4a8b-9662-fbff26ba3a24/

Basically, it's a klunkly 2-step process:

1. Get reference to the WordEditor object
2. Using the clipboard, copy and paste the formatted content into the editor

Seriously Microsoft, surely you could have come up with a better design.

Answer 2

The only way I know is to access the AppointmentItem's GetInspector property, and use it to fetch the underlying WordEditor used to parse the RTF format, something like:

var doc = appointment.GetInspector.WordEditor as Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document;

and then format the document using doc.Content according to Word Object Model.