Posts in the 'Outlook' category, page 3 of 22

Set Outlook to Compact on Close

August 23, 2011 by JP

There's a great tip over at Permanently delete from pst-file and Compact Now as well as Compact on Exit that shows you how to automatically set Outlook to compact PST files on exit. It's similar to the "Compact On Close" option available in Access (see SetOption for VBA syntax). Now if only there was something similar for Excel.

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Tagged With: compact, PST

Empty all Deleted Items Folders at the same time

August 5, 2011 by JP

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Sabarish Raghupathy runs a personal blog but one of his articles has some Outlook VBA code to empty the Deleted Items folders for multiple mailboxes. Visit the article for the full code.

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Tagged With: Deleted Items

Limit attachment size in Outlook

August 4, 2011 by JP

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On MSDN there's an article for Outlook 2010 that shows you how to Limit the Size of an Attachment to an Outlook Email Message. I think it needs some improvement (as well as translation to Outlook 2003 VBA). It's written by Ken Getz, a Microsoft MVP for VB.

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Tagged With: attachment, size

Don't Reply to BCC emails

August 1, 2011 by JP

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In You may have been BCCed warning, Outlook MVP Robert Sparnaaij shows us how we can see a warning when we are BCC'd on an email, so we don't hit Reply To All and embarrass ourselves. However, he didn't mention how we can leverage VBA event handlers as well. So we'll have to do so in this space.

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Tagged With: BCC, Reply

Move all Emails to Another Folder

June 30, 2011 by JP

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The time may come when you want to move a bunch of emails into another folder. The simple way is to press Ctrl+A and drag them to the new folder, but we can also use VBA to accomplish that, and more.

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Filed Under: Outlook

Tagged With: MAPIFolder, move, PickFolder