See how to print automatically the attachments you receive. A second sample shows how to print the attachments of all selected emails.

Last modified: 2017/09/11

Up to Outlook 2003 the CDO 1.21 library offered features you couldn't find in the Outlook object model.

Last modified: 2006/01/20

This sample creates a user defined property and adds the return path so you can see its value for each email in the folder list view.

Last modified: 2009/07/18

A timer enables you to call your code at regular intervals.

Last modified: 2006/01/18

See how to build your own auto archiving for Outlook folders.

Last modified: 2007/02/07

Tell Outlook to use your custom form instead of the default form to display an item.

Last modified: 2009/09/23

Check message properties before sending. This sample prompts you if you try to send an email without an assigned category.

Last modified: 2007/04/24

For users of smartphones, for instance, that don't support categories see how to categorize every new appointment.

Last modified: 2009/09/23

This macro makes it easy to add, for instance, travel times for an appointment to the calendar.

Last modified: 2014/01/09

In this sample we change the company name for multiple contacts at once.

Last modified: 2016/12/06

In this sample we move the due date for several task items at one go.

Last modified: 2013/07/23

In this sample we change the priority for multiple task items at once.

Last modified: 2008/01/15

Let a script categorize every new email.

Last modified: 2007/02/01

Do you want to change the view font of the current folder? This example works for Outlook 2007 and up.

Last modified: 2012/02/22

Get a prompt if the size of an email exceeds a certain limit.

Last modified: 2006/01/18

For Outlook XP and 2003 appointments could be labeled - but not via the Outlook object model. See how to set a color label by code.

Last modified: 2007/05/02

Right click an appointment in your calendar, and send a confirmation to its linked contacts.

Last modified: 2010/08/24

Never again accidentally drag an apppointment to another day, or time by using this macro.

Last modified: 2014/10/02

With a few lines of code you can copy recordsets from an Access database to Outlook.

Last modified: 2015/08/06

This sample copies Outlook folders without their contents.

Last modified: 2017/06/28

This VBA sample copies multi-line text, for instance the mailing address from an email signature, as a single line into the clipboard.

Last modified: 2015/08/14

A sample for how to create a your own toolbar in Outlook 2007 (or earlier) with command buttons.

Last modified: 2006/01/20

This macro makes it easy to create repeating journal items, for instance, when you often work on the same project.

Last modified: 2007/04/03

The SafeMailItem of the Redemption library allows you to access properties of an email that are blocked by Outlook's security.

Last modified: 2006/05/21

This sample creates a serial number, which you could use, for instance, to index task items.

Last modified: 2006/01/20

For a project based filing system you often have to create the same subfolders for every new project folder. You can create any number of subfolders at once with a macro.

Last modified: 2015/05/06

This simple pattern demonstrates how to automatically create a new task as soon as the previous one is flagged as complete.

Last modified: 2016/11/26

This sample adds every outgoing call to the journal.

Last modified: 2007/11/22

Categories are very good for managing your contacts. However, in some cases it might also be good to have the contacts of a given category in a mailing list, which can can used quickly as recipients for an email.

Last modified: 2015/03/12

Nested distlists allow to combine groups of contacts to another group.

Last modified: 2008/01/08

The script completely removes the flag once the item is completed.

Last modified: 2007/03/15

Remove the attachments of several selected emails in one go.

Last modified: 2012/08/08

By clicking on Reply you can automatically delete the original email.

Last modified: 2006/09/26

See how to open the next email and delete the one you've just read.

Last modified: 2007/01/08

Are you bothered if every incoming meeting request has a reminder set? This sample deletes the reminder as soon as the request comes in.

Last modified: 2007/08/17

Get some samples for how to save a sent message in another folder than the default Sent Items folder.

Last modified: 2007/04/24

Since Word's object model is available in Outlook you can set the cursor to a certain position in a message.

Last modified: 2011/03/24

Before Outlook 2007, you could directly add a category to an item without saving it to the master category list. For Outlook 2007 and up this macro gives you that feature back.

Last modified: 2009/12/15

Since Outlook 2007 you can't directly display the categorizer for outgoing e-mails. This sample demonstrates how to display the dialog by code, which works even for IMAP messages.

Last modified: 2008/10/13

This sample opens the options dialog before sending an email so you can change some settings, for instance, delay the sending.

Last modified: 2006/01/19

Often the display name of an email recipient changes, making it impossible to sort these emails. This macro creates a new field with the pure email address.

Last modified: 2016/12/17

This macro enables you to get the sender's address even in older versions of Outlook.

Last modified: 2006/05/05

See how to edit the view settings of a folder.

Last modified: 2009/11/18

See how to edit quickly the subject of received emails.

Last modified: 2016/10/01

This macro allows you to determine the format (plain, html, rtf) to be used for sending emails for each of the three email addresses of a contact.

Last modified: 2006/09/11

This macro removes some addresses from an email before it leaves your outbox.

Last modified: 2010/02/20

These vba macros show how to embed a picture in an email so the receiver can see it instead of the dreaded red x.

Last modified: 2015/08/24

Delete the content of a folder with a single click.

Last modified: 2017/01/10

Often certain actions should take place as soon as one task is done. This sample demonstrates the general approach.

Last modified: 2007/04/13

This sample expands your entire folder list.

Last modified: 2017/03/17

Do you sometimes miss a new email because it's automatically moved to a closed subfolder? This macro expands the subfolder so you can see at a glance whether is has new items.

Last modified: 2013/05/23

These samples export the sender addresses or the recipient addresses of selected emails.

Last modified: 2017/04/28

Don't remember where to find a given folder? With this script you can find the folder by its name.

Last modified: 2016/09/09

This demonstrates how to get a window handle by the Win32 API.

Last modified: 2006/02/05

This sample finds an address in the list of recipients and then moves the email.

Last modified: 2009/11/23

Use VBA to search for all emails of the same topic.

Last modified: 2017/01/26

With VBA is's possible to flag even contacts for follow-up and set a reminder.

Last modified: 2006/01/19

This demonstrates how to flag emails for follow-up.

Last modified: 2016/11/03

A VBA macro that tells you which of all the available email accounts is the default one.

Last modified: 2006/11/09

Where is the message stored you're looking at? This macro tells you and can even open the folder for you.

Last modified: 2008/06/08

This macro tells you which Outlook version is running.

Last modified: 2014/01/01

This macro tells you by which of your accounts a certain message was received.

Last modified: 2006/05/17

Do you want to add some convenience for your users? See how to fill-in the search box of the address book by code.

Last modified: 2016/11/21

Control by code which of the commandbars should be visible at startup.

Last modified: 2009/08/15

You can hide a text in an email by using a bookmark.

Last modified: 2016/05/25

The sample gets you the number of appointments or meetings of a given day.

Last modified: 2006/01/20

A sample for how to paste a table from Excel and retaining its formattings.

Last modified: 2007/01/29

Use an inspector wrapper if you need to subscribe to the events of multiple open messages.

Last modified: 2007/04/04

This sample demonstrates how to look up a contact you have a meeting with, and display its mailing address with the appointment item.

Last modified: 2015/09/07

This sample demonstrates how to look up the sender of an email and display its contact data in the inbox.

Last modified: 2015/03/30

There could be a limit of how many items you can access in a single loop. See how to handle that situation.

Last modified: 2006/12/02

This sample explains the Links property, which is used to join any item (task item, contact item, etc.) with other items.

Last modified: 2014/02/26

These samples demonstrate the basics for a recursive loop through folders and their subfolders.

Last modified: 2015/03/28

This macro prevents users from working in another program while your program is waiting for an input.

Last modified: 2006/02/05

See how to display automatically the name of an attachment as the subject of the message.

Last modified: 2016/11/25

With a VBA macro all types of items like appointments, or contacts can be marked read, or unread.

Last modified: 2014/05/23

This sample demonstrates how to mark an e-mail as read as soon is it's being copied or moved to a folder.

Last modified: 2008/09/15

This sample shows how to merge any emails to the same conversation.

Last modified: 2016/10/27

This sample demonstrates how to move an item automatically to a subfolder of the inbox as soon as you flag it as completed.

Last modified: 2006/01/18

This sample automatically moves empty emails to the junk folder.

Last modified: 2017/06/23

Some emal properties cannot yet be changed in the Newinspector event. See how to handle that situation.

Last modified: 2007/03/20

A sample for how to read and write the content of any file.

Last modified: 2006/01/20

With a button for your templates you can open them with less clicks.

Last modified: 2010/10/13

Open frequently used files with a single click directly from Outlook.

Last modified: 2015/08/01

This is a macro to open all selected items.

Last modified: 2017/01/31

Do you know the problem that an email doesn't leave the outbox? This macro addresses one of the reasons.

Last modified: 2015/09/21

In Excel there's a function to stop the code execution for a determined time, which is missing in Outlook. See how to use the Sleep function of the Win32 API.

Last modified: 2007/07/20

Via the Outlook object model you cannot set the focus to a specific control. This sample demonstrates how to do it with the Win32 API.

Last modified: 2006/01/30

See how to print automatically the attachments you receive. A second sample shows how to print the attachments of all selected emails.

Last modified: 2017/09/11

See how to create a list of the auto-archive settings for all your Outlook folders and subfolders.

Last modified: 2016/12/21

This sample prints every new email.

Last modified: 2007/03/24

This example demonstrates how to print just certain pages instead of the entire e-mail.

Last modified: 2015/10/12

Another sample for how to check for certain properties before sending an email.

Last modified: 2008/06/19

See how to really delete IMAP messages with a single click.

Last modified: 2008/02/19

This macro turns reminders of task items on.

Last modified: 2007/02/26

Outlook 2013 adds automatically brackets around the area code. This script deletes the brackets.

Last modified: 2015/03/10

Two examples for how to remove troublesome quotation marks or an apostrophe from an email address.

Last modified: 2016/01/05

This sample explains the basics for replying with a template.

Last modified: 2006/01/19

See how to request a read receipt based on the recipient of the message.

Last modified: 2008/11/19

If you create a rule to move a new email automatically to another folder, the rules wizzard ignores upper/lower cases. This script doesn't ignore the subtle distinction.

Last modified: 2015/03/14

Rules can be run manually, however, that requires lots of clicks. Use this script to run all rules with your preferred settings.

Last modified: 2015/05/07

This explains the basics for writing macros that can be run by a rule.

Last modified: 2006/12/11

The sample saves incoming emails as *.msg files to the file system.

Last modified: 2006/01/19

This sample saves the attachments of all selected emails to the file system.

Last modified: 2012/07/29

Outlook can run a rule if you are the only recipient of an email. This macro runs a rule if you are the only recipient in the To field, no matter how many other addresses there is in the CC field.

Last modified: 2015/07/24

Avoid security alerts when accessing blocked properties or sending an email.

Last modified: 2007/12/18

With this little trick you can send emails via Outlook from, for instance, Excel without raising the security prompt in Outlook.

Last modified: 2007/12/19

This example sends a copy of each outgoing email to another address. The address is added as BCC so the recipient doesn't see that.

Last modified: 2009/11/17

See how to send a document from within Word without blocking the Outlook window.

Last modified: 2014/10/14

See how to send all files of a folder as email attachments to a predetermined recipient.

Last modified: 2015/05/11

This sends not the draft itself but a the copy of it so you can reuse the draft.

Last modified: 2017/02/25

Send particular emails without saving a copy in your Sent Items folder.

Last modified: 2006/12/06

See how to defer the delivery of your emails. Instead of sending immediately, you could send your emails, for instance, in the evening at six o'clock.

Last modified: 2016/12/01

See how to send emails automatically and regularly at certain intervals.

Last modified: 2006/01/19

Get a notification by email as soon as someone adds an appointment to your calendar.

Last modified: 2006/11/10

This script reveals how many member a given distribution list has.

Last modified: 2006/12/03

This script creates a birthday list correctly sorted by day and month, and ignoring the year of birth.

Last modified: 2013/02/01

This macro supports an advanced suggestion of email addresses. Find addresses not only by the first letters, but also by the domain, for instance.

Last modified: 2015/06/11

Categories qualify very well for triggering certain actions. See how to build your own Quick Steps.

Last modified: 2016/11/02

Outlook doesn't have a macro recorder, however, you can use many of the macros recorded in Word in Outlook, too.

Last modified: 2012/09/06