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

This macro is useful if you want to add a new note, for instance, to a contact or task.

Last modified: 2019/06/13

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

Let a script categorize every new email.

Last modified: 2007/02/01

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

Last modified: 2006/01/18

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

Last modified: 2010/08/24

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

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

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

Last modified: 2007/03/15

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: 2017/10/27

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

You can see in the inbox whether or not an email has attachments. However, you cannot see the amount of attachments. This macro adds that information to every incoming email.

Last modified: 2015/06/06

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: 2018/02/03

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 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

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

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

This demonstrates how to flag emails for follow-up.

Last modified: 2018/05/07

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 by which of your accounts a certain message was received.

Last modified: 2006/05/17

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

Last modified: 2016/05/25

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 the sender of an email and display its contact data in the inbox.

Last modified: 2015/03/30

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

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 macro allows to add several messages at once to the blocked senders list.

Last modified: 2013/12/06

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

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

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 script clears the subject of an email and removes any phrase you want.

Last modified: 2015/02/13

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: 2020/05/13

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

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

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

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

Set the expiry date with a single click for those emails you want to keep for just a certain time.

Last modified: 2007/09/21

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