Outlook-tip's Tip 434: Change Reply Format answered a frequent question: "How do I set Outlook to always reply in HTML or RTF? When replying to, or forwarding, an email...
This macro will go through the messages in a folder and create a contact for each sender A user needed to solve this problem: “My contact list on a...
Please note that the advice on this page reduces Outlook's security level and could leave you open to an exploit that takes over Outlook and sends mail on your...
Before you can design forms in Microsoft Outlook 2010, you need to enable the Developer ribbon. In Outlook 2010, go to File, Options, Customize Ribbon and add a check...
Most power users of Outlook are aware that it can be customized to a degree. The ability to create custom forms or use VBA macros have been around since...
While you can't change Outlook's 18 hour default reminder, you can use VBA to remove the reminder or change it to a different time. While the tweaks here work specifically with reminders on All Day events, this code can be tweaked to do almost anything when a new appointment or event is saved.
You can easily change the default form used for new items for any folder type except Mail folders. Right click on the folder name and choose Properties. Then select...
The steps are the same for all versions of Outlook and all Office applications It's easy to find code samples on the Internet, but unless you know how to...
Microsoft Outlook does not support importing multiple vCards – you need to import them one vcard at a time. While this is tolerable for a few, its frustrating when...
You can use AutoArchive to move old mail to a pst file as it ages by configuring AutoArchive to run frequently and configuring the autoarchive settings on a folder. If you need to keep the mail within your current data file but want to move it out of the Inbox, you can use a macro to move it as it ages.
Outlook developers will find the content on this page helpful when they are developing addins for Microsoft Outlook.
Use the following VBA code to create a contact picker. You can change the code to allow for a manual pick of contacts folder, ie not hardcoded. If you...
The Rules Wizard is great for a lot of things when automatically processing incoming e-mails. However, when there’s that one certain thing that you can’t do with it, you...
If you want to save messages in a universal format and want the attachments stay with the document, you need to convert the message to RTF format then save the message in *.doc format. . While you can do this in Outlook, it takes several steps. Using VBA to save messages to your hard drive in *.doc format takes just seconds.
Use this code to save messages with the date in the filename, retaining the Outlook file structure This code sample will save all messages in a specific Outlook folder...
In Part 1, we took a brief look at the fundamentals of Outlook programming. This included a quick exploration of the two primary interfaces: the full MAPI framework and...
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