Script for creating a calendar appt from an email??

Question asked on Feb 1, 2014

My wife is a substitute teacher and gets emails with her assignment. What she has asked was if there was a way to easily convert those emails to a calendar appt. I did find that I could click on the Meeting button but there's a lot of cutting, pasting, and date selection that is a bit tedious. Curious if I could use a script to make it more automated.

I'm pretty good with VBA in Excel on Windows, so I'm figuring there's a way to do what I want in VBA, but as (1) I've never used VBA on a mac and (2) never used VBA with outlook, I have no clue where to start.

Any ideas on how to:

Convert to meeting
Find line that starts with: "Location:" (ex: Location: WHITE, E. B. ES) and copy the rest of the line to the location block in Capital case (ex: White, E.B. ES)
Find line that starts with: "Classification:" (ex: Classification: GRADES 1-3) and copy the rest of the line to the Subject block in Capital case (ex: Grades 1-3)
Similarly parse out start date and end date from the body and enter those dates into the appt

Hoping someone with Outlook VBA skills could help me out.

Thanks!!

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