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Send an email to attendees who have not responded

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Last reviewed on February 8, 2018     45 Comments

This code began it's life in a macro that created a list of Meeting Attendees and Responses. With a few tweaks, the macro creates a new email message addressed to the invitees who have not yet responded.

Send an email to attendees who have not responded

This can be tweaked to send messages addressed to those who accepted, are tentative, or declined by changing the 0 in this line: If objAttendees(x).MeetingResponseStatus = 0 Then to the constant representing another response type.

In Outlook VBA, valid response statuses are:

ConstantResponse
0No response
1Organizer
2Tentative
3 Accepted
4Declined

Create a message addressed to attendees

  1. Press Alt+F11 to open the VBA editor.
  2. Right click on Project1 and choose Insert > Module.
  3. Paste the code below into the Module.
  4. Get the GetCurrentItem function from Outlook VBA: work with open item or selected item and paste it at the end of the module.

If location and attendees fields are not picked up when the macro runs against a selected meeting, open the meeting and run it.

To use, select a meeting on the calendar or open a meeting and run the macro. A new message will open, addressed to all invitees (required, optional, or resource) that has not yet responded. The organizer is not included in the message.

This macro works with either the selected item or opened item, using the GetCurrentItem function, which is available at "Outlook VBA: Work with Open Item or Selected Item"


Sub SendEmailtoNoRepsonse()
' Get the GetCurrentItem function from 
' http://slipstick.me/e8mio
Dim objApp As Outlook.Application
Dim objItem As Object
Dim objAttendees As Outlook.Recipients
Dim objAttendeeReq As String
Dim objOrganizer As String
Dim dtStart As Date
Dim dtEnd As Date
Dim strSubject As String
Dim strLocation As String
Dim strMeetStatus As String
Dim strCopyData As String
 
On Error Resume Next
 
Set objApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objItem = GetCurrentItem()
Set objAttendees = objItem.Recipients
 
' Is it an appointment
If objItem.Class <> 26 Then
  MsgBox "This only works with meetings."
  GoTo EndClean:
End If
 
' Get the data
dtStart = objItem.Start
dtEnd = objItem.End
strSubject = objItem.Subject
strLocation = objItem.Location
objOrganizer = objItem.Organizer
objAttendeeReq = ""
 
' Get The Attendee List
For x = 1 To objAttendees.Count

 ' 0 = no response, 2 = tentative, 3 = accepted, 4 = declined,
  If objAttendees(x).MeetingResponseStatus = 0 Then
    If objAttendees(x) <> objItem.Organizer Then
     objAttendeeReq = objAttendeeReq & "; " & objAttendees(x).Address
  End If
  End If

Next
  
 strCopyData = vbCrLf &  "-----Original Appointment-----" & vbCrLf & _
 "Organizer: " & objOrganizer & vbCrLf & "Subject:  " & strSubject & _
 vbCrLf & "Where:   " & strLocation & vbCrLf & "When:    " & _
 dtStart & vbCrLf & "Ends:      " & dtEnd
  
Dim objOutlookRecip As Outlook.Recipient
Set listattendees = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
  listattendees.Body = strCopyData
  listattendees.Subject = "Please respond to: " & strSubject
  listattendees.To = objAttendeeReq
  
For Each objOutlookRecip In listattendees.Recipients
objOutlookRecip.Resolve
Next

  listattendees.Display
  
   
EndClean:
Set objApp = Nothing
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objAttendees = Nothing
End Sub

Remove invitees who declined

This variation of the macro from J. Frohberg above will remove all person's who declined the meeting. It checks all meetings in the Calendar.

Sub Delete_All_Declined()

Dim oOL As New Outlook.Application
Dim oNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim objItem As Outlook.AppointmentItem

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set oNS = oOL.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set oAppointments = oNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar)

For Each objItem In oAppointments.Items

On Error Resume Next
x = 1
Do Until x > objItem.Recipients.Count

' 0 = no response, 2 = tentative, 3 = accepted, 4 = declined,
If objItem.Recipients(x).MeetingResponseStatus = 4 Then
If objItem.Recipients(x) objItem.Organizer Then
objItem.Recipients(x).Delete
x = x - 1
objItem.Save
End If
End If
x = x + 1
Loop

Next

MsgBox "Done"

Set oAppointmentItem = Nothing
Set oAppointments = Nothing
Set oNS = Nothing
Set oOL = Nothing
Set objItem = Nothing

End Sub

How to use the macros on this page

First: You need to have macro security set to low during testing. The macros will not work otherwise.

To check your macro security in Outlook 2010 and newer, go to File, Options, Trust Center and open Trust Center Settings, and change the Macro Settings. In Outlook 2007 and older, look at Tools, Macro Security.

After you test the macro and see that it works, you can either leave macro security set to low or sign the macro.

Open the VBA Editor by pressing Alt+F11 on your keyboard.

To put the code in a module:

  1. Right click on Project1 and choose Insert > Module
  2. Copy and paste the macro into the new module.

More information as well as screenshots are at How to use the VBA Editor

Send an email to attendees who have not responded was last modified: February 8th, 2018 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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Cristhian (@guest_214596)
January 13, 2020 4:09 pm
#214596

Hi

This macro is very useful for me, but I have a question.
I'd created recurrent meetings in a weekly / bi weekly basis for my customers, when I try to run this code for recurrent meetings. I received this error "You don't have appropriate permission to perform this operation on this line "objCopiedMeeting.Save" it creates a mess because duplicate the meeting and appears both the original and the copy, I need stop the code and delete the copy.

But when I delete the copy, Outlook sent a notification for the customer

I don't know how I can select one meeting, and on this selection, run the code only on this meeting

Regards

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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Reply to  Cristhian
January 14, 2020 12:19 am
#214599

I will take a look at it.

Copying meetings used to copy it as an appointment, not it copies it as a meeting.

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Luís Carlos (@guest_213290)
May 22, 2019 8:36 am
#213290

I loved this code!! I send a lot of invitations and it will be very usefull, thanks for sharing!!!

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Steen B.N. CPH (@guest_212491)
January 7, 2019 5:28 am
#212491

I have created an Outlook add-in from VB.Net to prepare a meeting forward message - with a dialog to set filter criterias for both the response type and also when the did respond.

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Kaytilou (@guest_211969)
September 19, 2018 12:46 pm
#211969

Many thanks for this macro, I've tried it and it is so closed of what I havve to do. Let me explain. I am in charge of organizing events/meeting for my company, sometimes with more that 100 people. I send meeting request. Some people answer, some don't and some on provisional which is very difficult for the follow up. What I do is open the meeting request, click on follow, uncheck people's request to those who have accepted the meeting and send back the request meeting with a wording asking for answering. I have to do it as many time as needed until getting all the answer. This may sound easy, but what a waste of time and especially when there are more than 50 people. Your macro "Send an email to attendees who have not responded" is perfect, but means that you send an email instead of sending back the request meeting. Do you think there will be a way to automate this by macro? If there is no solution, I will use your macro (send email) but I would love to find a solution, resending the request meeting without loosing people who have already accepted it. A very… Read more »

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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Reply to  Kaytilou
September 19, 2018 11:33 pm
#211970

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What I do is open the meeting request, click on follow, uncheck people's request to those who have accepted the meeting and send back the request meeting with a wording asking for answering.
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Are you removing users and sending an update? That will cancel it for the people you removed.

How do you need the macro automated?

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Kaytilou (@guest_212067)
Reply to  Diane Poremsky
October 11, 2018 2:05 pm
#212067

Thank you Diane for your answer. I use to do exactly what you are doing, ( open the meeting request, click on follow, uncheck people's request to those who have accepted the meeting and send back the request meeting with a wording asking for answering) but sometime it take time specially when you have more than 50 people in the request. That is the reason I wanted to automate this function by a macro in order to save time.
If you have the solution, it would be perfect. I wish you a great day :-)

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Chip Rose (@guest_209093)
October 23, 2017 10:11 pm
#209093

Get Compile Error with "Set objItem = GetCurrentItem()" being highlighted in the error in visual basic screen.

Hopefully this is a problem with Outlook 2016 using 365?

It would be great to have a fix... very much appreciate you going out of your way to enlighten us... again thanks. Chip.

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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Reply to  Chip Rose
October 23, 2017 11:35 pm
#209094

Sorry about that - you need the function at https://www.slipstick.com/developer/outlook-vba-work-with-open-item-or-select-item/#getcurrentitem - this allows you to use it with either open or selected items. (I'll make note of that on the page)

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BladerzZz (@guest_208428)
August 29, 2017 5:19 am
#208428

Is it possible to get this as an Add-in in Outlook? As a macro it works so nice but i need it as a add-in.

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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Reply to  BladerzZz
August 30, 2017 12:43 am
#208441

it could be compiled, if you have visual studio. (I'm not aware of any existing addins that offer this feature.)

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BladerzZz (@guest_208447)
Reply to  Diane Poremsky
August 30, 2017 6:33 am
#208447

And you know maybe how to do this?

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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Reply to  BladerzZz
October 23, 2017 11:48 pm
#209095

It's beyond the scope of this article. I don't want to support users who run into problems trying to compile code, hence no articles that tell how to do it. There is a walkthrough at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668191(v=vs.120).aspx

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AJ Noto (@guest_197784)
April 12, 2016 2:51 pm
#197784

This is sooo close to what I need but I cannot think of a way to tweak to for my needs... I am in charge of organizing meetings for my company (150+ people). However, depending on the conference room, there may only be space for a certain amount of people who accept meeting invitations (say 50ish people). But because the meetings are first come-first serve, once the room capacity is met I have to send individual emails to those who still accepted, but are now technically on a waiting list, alerting them to the fact there is no space left in the room.

Is someone willing to please help me automate this? I thought of using an automated response rule based on subject line "meeting name" and "accepted", but cannot figure out how to delay sending the response until i have 50 "accepts" in a certain folder.

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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Reply to  AJ Noto
April 12, 2016 3:22 pm
#197787

It's not an unusual request, I'm surprised no one has figured out a good solution.

So you are moving the accepts to a specific folder? A macro could watch the folder and count the number of messages then trigger an autoreply. Even if you weren't moving the replies, a macro could still count, using the subject. Not sure how error-proof it will be... The big thing will be missing a malformed subject or if someone replies with the same subject. Undercounting wouldn't be so bad - people on the wait list would fill in.

Setting it up each time could be a problem though....

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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April 12, 2016 4:22 pm
#197791

The good news is that i have a working macro. It's based on the macro at https://www.slipstick.com/developer/fun-arrays-one-macro-many-replies/ - the possibly bad news - it stores the response count in the registry (in a corp environment, you might not have the permissions needed to write to it). You'd also need to update the macro with the meeting subject and room count each time you send a meeting request that needs limited. A first version of this macro is at count-room-size.txt.

This is an itemadd macro that watches the inbox. Add the meeting subject and count to the arrSubject and arrRmSize, in the same spot for each. To test it you can accept a meeting (using a second account) then copy the acceptance and paste it in the inbox.

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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April 12, 2016 5:37 pm
#197792

This version uses a text file. The registry version might be faster.

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Me (@guest_191786)
July 7, 2015 3:04 pm
#191786

Is there anyway to use the forward meeting invite instead of just sending an email?
That way if the recipients have misplaced the original invite, they can accept the notification.

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Diane Poremsky(@diane-poremsky)
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July 7, 2015 9:40 pm
#191787

You can right click on it in the calendar and choose Forward.

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SSethis (@guest_217121)
Reply to  Diane Poremsky
October 27, 2020 11:02 am
#217121

Sorry is there a way to automatically do this and remove the people who have responded? I believe someone else asked a similar question but I don't think you answered. It's something so many people are desperate for. Essentially we need to prompt the people who haven't responded with an email they can click accept rather than a general email they can't directly action.

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