Whatcha tryin' to do, exactly? There were several complaints that outlook made to me while running this and it seemed to indicate that you are building some sort of Class (all those WithEvents indicated that you needed to create event handlers on the fly for some of your controls. Once I cleared through that,I saw the behavior you saw and simplified the problem as below: Option Explicit Private Sub Application_NewMail() ' New Mail Dim oFolder As Object Dim oNewItem As MailItem On Error Resume Next Set oFolder = GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox) 'Stop MsgBox oFolder.Items.Count For Each oNewItem In oFolder.Items.Restrict("[Unread] = 0") If oNewItem.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML Then oNewItem.Display oNewItem.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain oNewItem.Display End If Next ' Line D End Sub What confused me is that it appears you're trying to create new mail and make sure its format is not HTML. But, the routine you had actually cycles through unread messages and converts them from HTML to plain text. So, like, what's up?<g> Greg Chapman http://www.mousetrax.com "Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11! With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?" > -----Original Message----- > From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Green > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:41 AM > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mso] Re: Rules don't rule > > > Hello all, > > I'm affraid I might be hitting my head against a brick wall > with trying to > conquer Outlook rules but I'm rather stubborn so if this is > getting boring > please don't shout at me too loudly. > > Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work > Line A gets run then Line B and then Line D!! Line C doesn't > get run at all! > > Option Explicit > > Public WithEvents oItem As MailItem > Public WithEvents oInspector As Inspector > Public WithEvents oInspectors As Inspectors > Public WithEvents oControl As CommandBarButton > > Private Sub Application_NewMail() > ' New Mail > Dim oFolder As Object > Dim oNewItem As MailItem > > On Error Resume Next > Set oFolder = GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox) > Stop > 'Exit Sub > MsgBox oFolder.Items.Count > For Each oNewItem In oFolder.Items.Restrict("[Unread] = 0") > oItem = oNewItem > StripHTMLBody ' Line A > ' oItem.Save > Next ' Line D > End Sub > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************