OL2000: How to Programmatically Change Company Name for Multiple Contacts

• Microsoft Outlook 2000

SUMMARY

This article explains how you can programmatically change the Company name for many contact entries without manually editing each contact. This can be useful when a company changes its name.

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To Programmatically Change the Company Name

1. Open a new Contact item.



2. On the Tools menu, point to Forms, and then click Design This Form.



3. On the Form menu, click Control Toolbox. Drag a CommandButton to the General tab of the open form.



4. On the Form menu, click View Code, to open the Script Editor.



5. In the Script Editor, type the following code:




Sub CommandButton1_Click()
    Set objNameSpace = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set objContactsFolder = objNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(10)
    Set objContacts = objContactsFolder.Items.Restrict("[MessageClass] _
        = 'IPM.Contact'")
    For Each objContact In objContacts
        If objContact.CompanyName = "Old Company" Then
            objContact.CompanyName = "New Company"
            objContact.Save
        End If
    Next
End Sub 

6. On the Script Editor File menu, click Close.



7. On the Form menu, click Run this Form.



8. Click the CommandButton, this is CommandButton1 unless you renamed the button.



9. Open your contacts, and check that the company name is changed to the new name.

Additional query words: OutSol vbscript

Keywords : OffVBS
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto