Assign a control tip, caption, and accelerator key to a control

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

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Assign a control tip, caption, and accelerator key to a control

  1. Right-click the control that you want, and then click Advanced Properties on the shortcut menu.

  2. To set the property, click the property and enter a value in the Apply box.
    Set the property To assign
    ControlTipText The string you want to use as the control tip
    Caption The string you want to use as the caption
    Accelerator A single character as the value for ALT+Key entry. If you use a character from the caption of the control, the character is underlined

Note  You can also set the value of these properties with code. For example, to set the caption of the Label1 control on the Message page, use:

Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("Message").Label1.Caption = "New Caption"