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Assign a custom form to existing Outlook items
Use this VBA macro as an alternative to DocMessageClass for changing an Outlook item's message class.
Clean up the Junk Email folder
How to use Rules or a macro to clear spam from Outlook's Junk Email folder.
Use Redemption to enable Automatic Replies
How to use a macro to set up an Automatic reply (out of office reply) in Outlook on Windows desktop.
Display the Recipient Email Address in the Sent Items Folder
Use a macro to create a field in Outlook's Sent Items folder that displays the email addresses the message was sent to.
VBA: Copy New Appointments to Another Calendar
Use VBA to watch for new appointments added to the calendar and copy them to a second calendar. This is useful if you are syncing with a second calendar and only want some items synced. New: watch for updates to the original appointment and change the copied appointment.
Processing Incoming E-mails with Macros
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 can always be the Wizard yourself and write your own rules with VBA. However, one of the greatest challenges for developers programming with Outlook is learning
Open All Hyperlinks in an Outlook Email Message
Use an Outlook macro to open every hyperlink in the selected email message. A version of the macro will open hyperlinks in every message in the selected folder.
Add Attachments and Set Email Fields During a Mail Merge
Use an ItemSend macro to set fields on email merges and include attachments.
Mark Sent Items as Read After Copying with a Rule
When you use rules to move sent messages, the sent items are not marked read when they are copied to other folders. You need to VBA to mark the messages read.
Use VBA to Scan to Email
How to scan a document or image and attach or embed into an Outlook email using VBA and the Windows Image Acquisition Library (WIA).
Close Outlook using PowerShell
For best results, you should close Outlook before running backup software. $isOutlookOpen = Get-Process outlook* if($isOutlookOpen = $null){ # Outlook is already closed run code here: } else { $isOutlookOpen = Get-Process outlook* # while loop makes sure all outlook windows are closed before moving on to other code: while($isOutlookOpen -ne $null){ Get-Process outlook* |
Bulk Change File As Format for Contacts
Outlook Contacts offer a number of File As formats and this format can be used for the contact's name display in the Address Book. If you want to change the FileAs format on all of your contacts at once, you can use VBA. Complete, ready-to-use code is available.
Adding Birthdays and Anniversaries to Outlook's Calendar
Help managing Contact birthdays that are automatically added by Outlook to your calendar. Included are macros to added birthdays for imported contacts and to change the reminder time.
Delete folders using a macro or PowerShell
Use an Outlook macro or PowerShell script to bulk delete folders from Outlook.
Process messages received on a day of the week
Use VBA to process messages based on the day of the week or the time of day they were received.