If you would like to quickly find out all Outlook items related to a specific contact without accessing the contact’s “Activities” pane troublesomely, you can utilize the method shared in this article.
In general, when you would like to find all Outlook items involved with a contact, you can double click on the contact and then click on the “Activities” button in the “Show” group. However, many users hope that they can quickly get these related items simply right click a contact and choose a “Related Items” option, similar to “Find Related” option in the Email’s context menu. Now, in the followings, we will teach you how to realize it.
Quickly Find out All Outlook Items Related to a Specific Contact
- To start with, launch your Outlook program.
- Then, in the emerging Outlook main screen, you could press “Alt + F11” keys.
- Subsequently, you will get access to VBA editor window, in which you need to locate and double click on the “ThisOutlookSession” project on the left side.
- In the displaying “ThisOutlookSession” project window, you need to copy the following VBA code into it.
Sub Application_ItemContextMenuDisplay(ByVal CommandBar As Office.CommandBar, ByVal Selection As Selection) Dim objCommandBarButton As Office.CommandBarButton 'Add "Related Items" to the ContactItem's Context Menu If (Selection.count = 1) And (Selection.Item(1).Class = olContact) Then Set objCommandBarButton = CommandBar.Controls.Add(msoControlButton) With objCommandBarButton .Style = msoButtonIconAndCaption .Caption = "Related Items" .FaceId = 25 .OnAction = "Project1.ThisOutlookSession.FindRelatedItems" End With End If End Sub Sub FindRelatedItems() Dim strFilter As String Dim objContact As Object Dim objSearchExplorer As Outlook.Explorer Set objContact = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1) Set objSearchExplorer = Application.Explorers.Add(Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)) If objContact.Class = olContact Then 'Specify the Search Filter on Basis of Its Email Addresses strFilter = "from:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email1Address & Chr(34) & ") OR " & " to:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email1Address & Chr(34) & ") OR " & "cc:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email1Address & Chr(34) & ")" If objContact.Email2Address <> "" Then strFilter = strFilter & " OR from:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email2Address & Chr(34) & ") OR " & " to:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email2Address & Chr(34) & ") OR " & "cc:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email2Address & Chr(34) & ")" End If If objContact.Email3Address <> "" Then strFilter = strFilter & " OR from:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email3Address & Chr(34) & ") OR " & " to:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email3Address & Chr(34) & ") OR " & "cc:(" & Chr(34) & objContact.Email3Address & Chr(34) & ")" End If End If 'Start Searching With objSearchExplorer .Search strFilter, olSearchScopeAllOutlookItems .ShowPane olFolderList, False .ShowPane olNavigationPane, False .ShowPane olOutlookBar, False .ShowPane olToDoBar, False 'Show Search Results in New Window .Display End With End Sub
- After that, it is suggested to sign this code and change Outlook macro settings to permit digitally signed macros.
- Eventually you can take a shot.
- Firstly, select a source contact.
- Then, right click on it and choose “Related Items” from the context menu.
- At once, a new window will show up, where all the Outlook items related to the selected contact have been included, like the screenshot below:
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