Macros

Using VBA within Outlook, you will find, makes it easy to complete repetitive tasks and have the application behave according to your expectations. VBA code that is written to perform a task is called a macro. You can program macros to be as simple or complex as needed, as well as being able to program them to run automatically or with the click of a button, or simply to have something displayed.

You may be asking what is the difference between a macro and VBA? A macro is programming code, which happens to be written in VBA, that runs on application platforms such as Outlook, Excel, Word, and others to perform automatic routine tasks. VBA is the programming application built within Outlook (or other apps) that is used to create macros.

In Office applications such as Excel and Word, you can record macros using a simple tool, Record Macro. This tool will create the VBA code for you as you go through the steps on the screen while having the code generated and saved as a macro...