How to Auto Move All Recipients except Original Sender to “CC” Field When Using “Reply All” in Outlook

Some users always move all the recipients except the original sender to “CC” field when using “Reply All” in Outlook. This article will introduce a method to automate the movement with Outlook VBA.

By default, when you select “Reply All” to reply an email, all the recipients who was originally in “To” field will be still placed in the “To” field in the replying mail. However, many users would like to move all the recipients to the “CC” field with only the original sender in “To” field. In response to this requirement, here we’ll expose a piece of VBA code, which can realize it automatically.

Auto Move All Recipients except Original Sender to “CC” Field in “Reply All”

1. In the first place, launch your Outlook program.
2. Then in the main Outlook window, press “Alt + F11” key buttons.
3. Next you will enter the Outlook VBA editor.
4. Subsequently, you ought to find and open the “ThisOutlookSession” project.
5. Later you need to copy and paste the following VBA codes into this project window.

Public WithEvents objExplorer As Outlook.Explorer
Public WithEvents objInspectors As Outlook.Inspectors
Public WithEvents objMail As Outlook.MailItem

Private Sub Application_Startup()
    Set objExplorer = Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer
    Set objInspectors = Outlook.Application.Inspectors
End Sub

Private Sub objExplorer_Activate()
    On Error Resume Next
    If objExplorer.Selection.Item(1).Class = olMail Then
       Set objMail = objExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub objInspectors_NewInspector(ByVal Inspector As Inspector)
    If Inspector.CurrentItem.Class = olMail Then
       Set objMail = Inspector.CurrentItem
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub objMail_ReplyAll(ByVal Response As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
    Dim objReplyAll As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim objRecipient As Outlook.recipient
    Dim objCCRecipient As Outlook.recipient
    Dim strSender As String
 
    Set objReplyAll = objMail.ReplyAll
 
    strSender = objMail.SenderEmailAddress
 
    For Each objRecipient In objMail.Recipients
        'Exclude yourself
        If objRecipient.Address <> "youremail@datanumen.com" Then
           'Add the recipients as CC recipients
           Set objCCRecipient = objReply.Recipients.Add(objRecipient.Address)
           objCCRecipient.Type = olCC
        End If
    Next
 
    'Keep original sender in To field
    objReplyAll.To = strSender
    objReplyAll.Display
 
    Cancel = True
End Sub

6. After that, you should sign this macro and then change your Outlook macro settings to permit digitally signed macros.
7. Eventually you can restart your Outlook to activate the new VBA project.
8. From now on, every time you reply emails using “Reply All”, you will see that all the recipients have been moved to “CC” field with only the original sender in “To” field.

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