Contact him/her if you want to know the frequency of the backups. If you are using an Exchange account, then your contacts are stored on the Exchange server which should be backed up by your email administrator. For details see Don’t risk losing your Contacts and Calendar when using IMAP in Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016. You can also force Outlook to store your Contacts directly in a pst-file so you can backup this file. In that case you can export or copy the Contacts folder to a pst-file as described in the “Backup Contacts folder only”.
When you only have an IMAP account configured in Outlook, then your Contacts are stored in a “This computer Only” folder. Making a backup of that pst-file also includes your Contacts. Just like a POP3 account, your contacts are stored in your main pst-file (so not the one of your IMAP account). The pst-file is the database that Outlook uses to store your mail, contacts, calendar items, tasks, notes and journal items in. If you keep all your contacts in the Contacts folder of Outlook, simply make a backup of your main pst-file. The short and easy answer to this question is Press CTRL+C to copy the code.How do I make a backup of all my contacts in the Address Book in Outlook? " & _Ĭlick in the area above and press CTR+A to select all. Result = MsgBox("No Contact Group item selected. 'Selected item isn't a Contact Group item Result = MsgBox("The Contact Group '" & olDL.DLName & "' contains " & olDL.MemberCount & " members.", vbInformation, "CountDLMembers") If objItem.Class = Outlook.olDistributionList Then "in the Calendar or open an item first.", _
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You can use the code below for review or manual installation. The following code is contained in the zip-file referenced in the Quick Install. You can add a button for the macro to the main Outlook window or the Contact Group window. Add a button for easy access to the macro or press ALT+F8 and select the macro you want to execute.Sign your code so you won’t get any security prompts and the macro won’t get disabled.If you copied the code, paste it into a new module. Extract the zip-file and import the CountMembers.bas file via File-> Import….
Download this code-file ( countdlmembers.zip) or copy the code below.Message box output of the CountDLMembers macro. The CountDLMembers macro allows you to get the member count of a selected Contact Group directly from your Contacts folder or from the window of an opened Contact Group. A more sophisticated way is to use a VBA macro as demonstrated in this guide. In Outlook, there is no direct way to find out how many members have been added to a Contact Group (sometimes also known as Distribution Lists).Īpparently, the Outlook Team doesn’t like to count things as Outlook also can’t display the amount of selected items.Ī workaround is to save the Contact Group as a txt-file and get the line count.