VBA Code Samples

You can easily change the default form used for new items for any folder type except Mail folders. Although the screenshots are for contacts, the steps are the same for Calendar & Tasks. Right click on the folder name and choose Properties. Then select the new form from the General tab, When posting to this  

How to create a toolbar button in Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 to open templates and files and disable the security warning dialog that displays before the template or files opens.

How to copy appointments from several Outlook calendars to print as one calendar. Includes code specific to Exchange server accounts that works with Resource calendars as well as other user's calendars.

A user wanted to know how to remove [External] from the subject of incoming messages. My company recently instituted the policy that puts the [EXTERNAL] tag in every subject when an email is received from outside the organization. When it's only one email, it's not really an issue. However, when it turns into a thread  

How to assign a category to appointments automatically, as soon as they are over, using a macro with a trigger, such as the meetings own reminder or the next appointment reminder, that will kick off the macro.

Categories and flags are not available in all of my folders in Microsoft Outlook. I can use categories and flags on mail in my POP3 account but categories are not available in my IMAP account and flags are limited to one flag, no reminder. Why? The IMAP protocol doesn't support the Category and Flag properties  

This macro allows you to rename attachments on incoming or outgoing messages.

How to use Len, Left, Right, Mid, and InStr to extract text from Microsoft Outlook fields and message bodies.

New to Outlook 365: Remember Zoom Preferences. If the fonts in incoming messages are tiny (or huge), you may have a Zoom problems. I'll show you how to fix it. If you don't have an Office 365 subscription, I have a macro that will set the zoom level for you.

Use this code sample and function to display the Internet header of selected message in a new message form.

A user with way too many contact folders created a new profile and none of the contact folders were listed in the Address Book menu. With more than 200 contacts folders, it would take several hours to enable each folder manually. I had a macro that needed just a little tweaking to set the folders  

Use this VBA macro as an alternative to DocMessageClass for changing an Outlook item's message class.

How to choose the file path when you save an Outlook attachment or a message using a VBA macro.

Use a VBA macro to resize large images in received email.

This variation of the Resize Images in Email macro puts a border and shadow around all images in the message you are composing.