If you would like to send Outlook email to all contacts in a specific color category in batches, you could utilize the 2 methods introduced in this article.
For some reasons, at times, you may need to send a same email to all contacts in a specific color category. Without any doubts, sending one by one is pretty tedious. Hence, here we will share you 2 approaches. Both have their own pros and cons, you could choose either to your liking.
Method 1: Batch Send to All Contacts in a Specific Category in One Contact Folder
- To start with, launch your Outlook application.
- Then, access “Contacts” area and open a contact folder.
- Subsequently, click into the search box, and then hit the “Categorize” button and choose a specific color category from the drop down list.
- After that, you will see that only the contacts in a specific color category are listed. Now you could select all the search results by pressing “Ctrl + A” key.
- Later you can switch back to “Home” tab and click on the “E-mail” button.
- At once, a new email will display. Now you can compose it as per your needs and finally hit “Send” button to send it out.
If you have multiple contacts folders in a specific Outlook data file and would like to loop through all these folders and find the contacts in a specific color category and then bulk send an email to them, you could utilize the following way.
Method 2: Batch Send to All Contacts in a Specific Category in All Contact Folders
- First off, press “Alt + F11” keys in the main Outlook screen.
- Next, in the new window, you can open a new module.
- Then copy the following VBA code into this module.
Dim objSourcePSTFile As Outlook.Folder Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem Dim objMailRecipients As Outlook.Recipients Sub SendanEmailtoAllContactsinSpecificColorCategory() Dim objFolder As Outlook.Folder Set objMail = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem) Set objMailRecipients = objMail.Recipients 'Get the source PST file 'Change "John Smith" to the displaying name of your own PST file Set objSourcePSTFile = Application.Session.Folders("John Smith") For Each objFolder In objSourcePSTFile.Folders Call Processfolders(objFolder) Next 'Change or add more email details here: With objMail .Recipients.ResolveAll .Subject = "Test Mail" .Body = "Input the mail details..." .Send End With End Sub Sub Processfolders(objCurrentFolder As Outlook.Folder) Dim objItem As Object Dim objContact As Outlook.ContactItem Dim objSubfolder As Outlook.Folder If objCurrentFolder.DefaultItemType = olContactItem Then For Each objItem In objCurrentFolder.Items If TypeOf objItem Is ContactItem Then Set objContact = objItem 'Find all contacts in a specific color category If InStr(objContact.Categories, "Colleagues") > 0 Then objMailRecipients.Add objContact.Email1Address End If End If Next objItem End If 'Process all contact folders recursively If objCurrentFolder.Folders.Count > 0 Then For Each objSubfolder In objCurrentFolder.Folders Call Processfolders(objSubfolder) Next End If End Sub
- Eventually, you could run this macro just by pressing F5 key button.
- Immediately, you will see that a new email is in your Outbox, being sent out.
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