> First of all we have to say that you can interact with Outlook directly from other Microsoft Office apps via VBA using the object Outlook.Application. I have

> First of all we have to say that you can interact with Outlook directly from other Microsoft Office apps via VBA using the object Outlook.Application. I haven't seen any corporate deployments that permit jacking around directly with Outlook in years. In particular, the transition to .*x file extensions some years ago marked the a heavy lockdown of all my favorite VBA stylings. To give a customer an .xltm with the capability to import .json files with tidy formatting, it was necessary to package everything as a .docx and then construct the target on his machine. It's one way to do security, I suppose