At times, you may want to quickly extract a specific type of recipients in many mails and then create a contact group from them. You can choose to manually get it. But, in comparison with the method shared in this article, it is too tedious.
Email recipients can be divided into three types – “To”, “CC” and “BCC” recipients. Therefore, sometimes, you may want to do something only with a specific type of recipients. For instance, you hope to rapidly create a contact group from the “CC” recipients of multiple emails. Unquestionably, the common and standard method is to copy recipients to the group manually. Yet, it is too troublesome. So, here we will introduce another far more effective way.
Create a Contact Group from a Specific Type of Recipients in Multiple Emails
- For a start, access Outlook VBA editor according to “How to Run VBA Code in Your Outlook“.
- Then, in the new window, copy and paste the following code into a module or project.
Sub ContactGroup_SpecificTypeRecipients_MultipleEmails() Dim objSelection As Outlook.Selection Dim objItem As Object Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem Dim objRecipient As Outlook.Recipient Dim i As Long Dim objContactGroup As Outlook.DistListItem 'Get all selected emails Set objSelection = Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection If Not (objSelection Is Nothing) Then 'Create a contact group Set objContactGroup = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olDistributionListItem) For Each objItem In objSelection Set objMail = objItem 'Add the specific type of recipient to the contact group For i = objMail.Recipients.Count To 1 Step -1 Set objRecipient = objMail.Recipients(i) 'Change recipient type - olTo, olBCC or olCC If objRecipient.Type = olCC Then objContactGroup.AddMember objRecipient End If Next Next 'Display the contact group objContactGroup.Display End If End Sub
- After that, exit the VBA editor.
- Subsequently, for later convenience, add this macro to Quick Access Toolbar.
- Finally, follow the steps below to take a shot.
- At first, select the emails as per your needs.
- Then, click the macro button in Quick Access Toolbar.
- At once, a new contact group will display, like the following figure.
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