The problem with your code is due to the lack of strict and warnings. If you had those turned on you would see that your call to set the colour is wrong:
# $note->(Color) <--------wrong $note->{Color} = $Color;
I tested it and was able to create a note of the colour blue just by changing that line :)
Update: heres some working code. I tested it on Outlook 2000 on win2k using Activestate Perl
use Win32::OLE; use strict; use warnings; use constant olBlue => 0; use constant olGreen => 1; use constant olPink => 2; use constant olWhite => 4; use constant olYellow => 3; use constant olSave => 0; my $options = { 'Body' => "Test note", 'Color' => olBlue, 'Categories' => "Favorites", 'MessageClass' => "IPM.StickyNote", }; my $Outlook = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application'); # Setup Creation of a new Note my $note = $Outlook->CreateItem(5); # Write Note Title & Body while (my ($key,$val) = each %{$options}) { $note->{$key} = $val; } # Close and Save note. $note->Close(olSave);

In reply to Re: OLE and Outlook Note Color's by simon.proctor
in thread OLE and Outlook Note Color's by Anonymous Monk

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