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Use a macro to automatically add travel time to new meetings on your Outlook calendar.

Outlook VBA doesn't have a timer function but you can use Appointment or Task Reminders to trigger macros. If you want the macro to fire a specified time after you restart Outlook, use an Application_Startup macro to create the appointment.

One thing that Outlook cannot do by itself is automatically create new entries in Contacts for people you send messages to. This VBA code sample by Sue Mosher provides a way to add recipients automatically. To avoid the Outlook security prompts, it uses the Redemption library, which provides a wrapper for Extended MAPI that does  

Use a macro to quickly add the sender of an email to a Contact Group.

Use an ItemSend macro in Outlook to replace display names on messages with the email address as the message is sent.

Victor Beekman wanted to share another macro with our visitors. This is similar to our macros that search for all messages from a contact or sender but instead of doing an "in-place" search, it opens a new window with the results.

I often need to copy a Contact's details to share with others and to put into appointments.

An Outlook user wanted to know how to create a task from an email message but only include the actionable part of the message in the task. Easy: drag the selection to the Task or Calendar folder or use a macro.

A major complaint about Outlook's conversation view is the inability to split and merge conversations. While Outlook doesn't offer the capability, you can use a macro to merge or split conversations.

How to use a macro to resend a sent message in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016.