Formula help? - instr

[Syme]

The part of the formula that is currently failing is this:
instr(1,[Message],"Instance ID:",1)

It's supposed to return the postion of the string "Instance ID:".

It does work for all messages received, but if the message has been replied
to it doesn't seem to find the occurence of "Instance ID:" in the body of the
original message.

eg. using instr function on the message below does not find the string ..
Subject: RE: blah blah
Message:
Hi,
blah blah blah
Regards,
Me
-----Original Message-----
From: someone
Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2006 8:33 AM
To: someoneelse
Subject: blah blah
Instance ID: 12345678

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

THis is a formula for use where? In what version of Outlook?

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[GS]

wonder if the OP is talking about some vba code
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