Outlook has the built in ability to export contacts as vCards, but it will only do it one at a time. With the following vba script and a few bash commands, you can batch export each contact as a vCard and then combine the individual files into one vcard file.
Again, I needed to find the path to particular folder. This one was deep and not under my Inbox. So, updated the folder list function. It is now recursive and (very simply) shows the structure.
' Copyright under GPL by Mark Grimes
' list folders by poping up msg box windows
Sub ListFolders()
Dim objNS As NameSpace
Dim objFolder
Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
ListFromFolder objNS, ""
Set objNS = Nothing
End Sub
Sub ListFromFolder(objFolderRoot, spaces As String)
Dim objFolder As MAPIFolder
For Each objFolder In objFolderRoot.Folders
Debug.Print spaces + objFolder.Name
If objFolder.Folders.count > 0 Then
ListFromFolder objFolder, spaces + " "
End If
Next
End SubI recently needed to walk through all the events in an Outlook calendar and make a change. Here is the simple code:
' Copyright under GPL by Mark Grimes
' list folders by poping up msg box windows
Sub ResaveCalendarEntries()
Dim objNS As NameSpace
Dim objFolders, objFolder, objCalFolder
Dim objCalEntry As AppointmentItem
Dim count
count = 0
Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objCalFolder = objNS.Folders.item("Mailbox - MyMailBox").Folders.item("Calendar")
' This also works...
' Set objCalFolder = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar)
For Each objCalEntry In objCalFolder.Items
count = count + 1
Debug.Print count
Debug.Print objCalEntry.Subject
objCalEntry.Mileage = 1
objCalEntry.Save
' Exit Sub
Next
Set objNS = Nothing
End SubI often find myself creating a Outlook contact from the signature in an email or some text in a work document. Rather than do it by hand each time, I have put together a few vba commands and a new vba class to parse the text on the clipboard and create a new contact from what it gathers.
To set it up, in ThisOutlookSession add:
Public Sub ParseClipboard()
Dim Selection As DataObject
Dim SelectionStr As String
Set Selection = New DataObject
Selection.GetFromClipboard
SelectionStr = Selection.GetText
CreateAddrFromStr SelectionStr
End SubI finally created an add-in for Excel that includes many of the tools that I use all the time and have outlined on this site. The add-in will create a new menu in Excel and setup a number of shortcuts. Here are some of the more useful ones:
When I feel like getting fancy, it can be nice to include a bulleted list in an Excel sheet to describe assumptions, etc. This is actually pretty easy to do, but requires adding some odd characters. This macro will add a character and change the font of a cell to create a bullet. If you run this macro on a cell which already contains a bullet, an arrow shaped sub-bullet is inserted instead.
' Toggles a bullet and an arrow
' Copyright under GPL by Mark Grimes
' Keyboard Shortcut: Crtl+Shift+B
'
Sub mgBullet()
If ActiveCell.Formula = "l" Then
Selection.Font.Name = "Wingdings"
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "bullet"
' Replace the text bullet with the bullet symbole from Wingdings
' Found that others don't have wingdings 3, it's sub-bullet was better
' Selection.Font.Name = "Wingdings 3"
' ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "}"
Else
Selection.Font.Name = "Wingdings"
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "l"
End If
With Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
.VerticalAlignment = xlBottom
.WrapText = False
.Orientation = xlHorizontal
End With
End SubThis is one of my favorites. It saves a copy of the current file in the ‘Backup’ directory if one exists under the directory in which the file is currently saved. It saves the files with an incrementing two digit number after the filename (before the .xls extension). A cap of 50 backups is imposed just to keep from taking up too much disk space (my models tend to be BIG).
' Save a copy of the current file.
' Copyright under GPL by Mark Grimes
' Keyboard Shortcut: Crtl+Shift+S
' Will save in the "Backup" subdirectory if it exists.
' Will attempt to add an index number upto 50.
'
Sub mgSaveBackup()
p0$ = ActiveWorkbook.Path
If Dir(p0$ & "\Backup", vbDirectory) <> "" Then
p$ = p0$ & "\Backup"
End If
n0$ = ActiveWorkbook.Name
If Right(n0$, 4) <> ".xls" And Right(n0$, 4) <> ".XLS" Then
MsgBox "File must be a previously saved '.xls' file."
End
End If
n$ = Left(n0$, Len(n0$) - 4)
i = 0
Do
i = i + 1
Loop Until (Dir(p$ & "\" & n$ & "." & Application.Text(i, "00") & ".xls") = "") Or (i > 50)
If i > 50 Then
MsgBox "No more than 50 backup's can be made."
End
End If
response = MsgBox("File to be backed-up as:" & Chr(10) _
& p$ & "\" & n$ & "." & Application.Text(i, "00") & ".xls", vbOKCancel)
If response = vbOK Then
'FileCopy p0$ & "\" & n0$, p$ & "\" & n$ & "." & i & ".xls"
ActiveWorkbook.SaveCopyAs p$ & "\" & n$ & "." & Application.Text(i, "00") & ".xls"
Else
MsgBox "Backup aborted!"
End If
End SubWhen formatting a Excel sheet underlining or overlining (which appears as if you underlined the cell above) a cell often looks much better than just underlining the contents of the cell (ctrl-u). This macro will toggle the under/overlines for all the selected sells.
' Toggles Underlines
' [% coypright %]
' Keyboard Shortcur: Crtl+Shift+U
'
Sub mgSetUnderline()
If Selection.Borders(xlBottom).LineStyle = xlNone Then
With Selection.Borders(xlBottom)
.Weight = xlThin
.ColorIndex = xlAutomatic
End With
Else
Selection.Borders(xlBottom).LineStyle = xlNone
End If
End Sub
' Toggles Overlines
' Copyright under GPL by Mark Grimes
' Keyboard Shortcur: Crtl+Shift+O
'
Sub mgSetAnOverline()
If Selection.Borders(xlTop).LineStyle = xlNone Then
With Selection.Borders(xlTop)
.Weight = xlThin
.ColorIndex = xlAutomatic
End With
Else
Selection.Borders(xlTop).LineStyle = xlNone
End If
End Sub
The spam filters that we use at work, process all the messages in a particular folder to train the filter. Rather than drag and drop messages, I use the following code to move the selected or active message into the target folder. For each of the public subs, I have a toolbar button which runs the code.
I often like to have narrow empty columns between data columns just to make things look nice (cell underlining looks better that way in my opinion). This macro will prompt you for a number of columns per group and then it selects one column per group for the currently selected range (i.e. selecting A5:G5, running the macro and entering 2 would result in columns B, D, and F being selected). Then you can quickly resize those columns to make everything look real pretty.
' Select every other column
' Copyright under GPL by Mark Grimes
'
Sub mgSelectEOther()
Dim i, mult As Integer
Dim r, cst As String
mult = Application.InputBox(prompt:="Select every x columns:", default:=2, Type:=1)
r = ""
i = 0
For Each c In Selection
i = i + 1
If i Mod mult = 0 Then
If (c.Column > 26) Then
' tx = c.Column & ": A=" & Asc("A") & ", " & Int(c.Column / 26) & ", " & (c.Column Mod 26)
' MsgBox tx
cst = Chr(Asc("A") - 1 + Int(c.Column / 26)) & Chr(Asc("A") + (c.Column Mod 26) - 1)
Else
cst = Chr(Asc("A") + c.Column - 1)
End If
r = r & "," & cst & ":" & cst
End If
Next
r = Right(r, Len(r) - 1)
' MsgBox r
ActiveSheet.Range(r).Select
End Sub