VBA Code Samples

How to use a VBA macro to list all snoozed times for Appointments, Flagged messages, and Tasks.

The code samples on this page ask for confirmation before a contact is deleted. This way you don't need to retrieve the contact from the Deleted items folder and move it back to the contacts folder. The first code sample works with selected contacts, the second one works with opened contacts. You can use both  

Step-by-step instructions you can use to delete or hide the default folders (such as the junk email and suggested contacts folders) that Microsoft Outlook creates in your data files.

Use an Outlook macro or PowerShell script to bulk delete folders from Outlook.

After importing IMAP folders to Personal Folders or an Exchange mailbox, messages in the imported folder are hidden.

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.

I have a Days of the Year HOL file that creates all day events that count the days of the year, up and down "Day 5: 360 to go" but as the days are past, I don't need to know what day it was and prefer a cleaner calendar. While it's easy enough to delete  

How to create a list of the folders in Microsoft Outlook data files. This code works with any data file in the Outlook profile.

Use VBA to export a photo from a contact and save it to the hard drive. Use a second macro to add the photo to a new contact.

Use PowerShell or VBA to get the creation date of a folder in Outlook desktop software.

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

How to use PowerShell to bulk change Outlook Contact fields, including the File As and Email display name fields.

Use VBA to check the subject of every message you send (new or replies) for a specific keyword. If the word is not found, add it to the subject.

These samples contains the basic code for working with all items in a selected folder or selected items in a folder.

The code behind Microsoft Outlook forms is always written with the Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Engine, better known as VBScript, a small portable language, which is also used in web pages and standalone scripts. VBScript does not support the built-in Outlook constants, such as olFolderContact. Only the constants built into VBScript, such as vbYes, are supported. For