Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Using Add-Ins

Outlook 2007 provides tremendous functionality right out of the box and could well serve all your needs. However, if you need additional features not provided directly by Outlook 2007, add-ins can help to extend Outlook 2007 functionality. Outlook 2007 includes a handful of such add-ins, and third-party developers can produce others.

Outlook 2007 supports two types of add-ins: application-specific (standard) add-ins and Component Object Model (COM) add-ins. Standard add-ins are the type supported by earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook, which allow a developer to add features to one Microsoft Office system application. Standard add-ins are not portable between Microsoft Office system applications. These add-ins are integrated into ...