Category Archives: eMail

Easily edit the HTML in your Outlook documents

Long long long ago, I found a macro on the web which has been very useful many times in my MS Outlook life. This macros lets you edit the guts (understand : the HTML code) in an HTML mail very easily.

Recently, I had to reinstall it, and couldn’t find any trace of it on the web. Fortunately, I could grab it from some ancient backup.

So, here it is, if you know who made it I’ll be glad to give credits to its author :

html_copy_paste.bas

And a little treat : here’s a basic tutorial on how to set it up :

Clean duplicates in Outlook

This little VBA programme removes duplicate mails, or contacts, or appointments in Microsoft Outlook.
Great for pop3 servers going awry, or PDA synch that screws up.
This removes duplicates in the current folder, if it contains either e-mails, contacts (and distributionlists) or appointments.
The user can choose to either simulate (no deletion), send to deleted items or a subfolder, or permanently remove.
He can also choose to process only unread items.
The way the app does items comparison is explained in the comments of the ItemsSimilar procedure.

Please note that I recently discovered Anti-Dupe that seems to do the same job in a fine manner too. Give it a try!

Latest version from now on available at

Ce petit programme en VBA supprime les doublons de mails, contacts ou rendez-vous dans Microsoft Outlook.
Parfait pour des cas de serveurs pop3 qui partent en vrille, ou des synchros de PDA qui flanchent.
Ce programme élimine les doublons dans le dossier en cours, s’il contient des e-mails, des contacts (et listes de distribution) ou des rendez-vous.
L’utilisateur peut choisir soit de simuler (pas de destruction), d’envoyer dans les éléments supprimés ou un sous-dossier, ou de supprimer définitivement.
Il peut aussi choisir de traiter seulement les éléments non lus.
La manière dont l’appli compare les éléments est expliquée en détails dans les commentaires de la procédure ItemsSimilar.

Notez aussi que j’ai récemment découvert Anti-Dupe qui semble faire la même chose de belle manière aussi. A essayer, donc.

Dernière version à présent disponible à

Changelog:
‘V1.18 2010-09-21
‘- Par MLL’
‘- Assouplissement du critère de définition d’un doublon pour les contacts

‘V1.17 2008-03-13
‘- by OLIV’
‘- Add DOEVENTS for the progress bar display
‘- more verbose confirmation message
‘- create dupes subfolder only if necessary
‘V1.16 2006-02-14
‘- “only unread items” checked by default only if active folder is a mail foder
‘- user may chose to avoid comparing company names for contact items

‘V1.15 2006-02-03
‘- new function “relocate item to subfolder”

‘V1.14 2006-01-31
‘- algorithm enhancements to detect even more duplicate contacts
‘- cosmetic changes

‘V1.13 2005-09-15
‘- In case of dupe appointments, we keep the heaviest one

ConfigMail

Also, I’ve made up a tutorial, with also some advices and tricks, on how to configure MS Outlook and Outlook Express and use e-mails well. Mainly aimed at beginners, but advanced users might also find useful stuff there (sorry, french language only) : J’ai aussi conçu un tutoriel, agrémenté de quelques conseils et trucs, sur la façon de configurer MS Outlook et Outlook Express, et de bien exploiter les e-mails. Pricipalement destiné aux débutants, mais les utilisateurs chevronnés pourront aussi y trouver des infos intéressantes :