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Update Outlook Mail categories from Excel

Time:10-12

I'm accessing Outlook via Excel because my enterprise Outlook VBA has been disabled. I'm specifically iterating though my Inbox and updating Mail.object categories property.

Dim objOutlook As Object
Set ObjOUtlook =CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

Dim objNSpace As object
Set ObjNSpace = objNaspace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

Dim myFolder As Object
Set myFolder= objNSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

Dim myItems As Outlook.Items
Set myItems = myFolder.Items

For Each objItem In myFolder.items
Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
set objMail = objItem

objMail.Categories = "Blue"
objMail.Save

This gives the Blue category in the picture but I want to be able update with the Orange Category formatting.

Can this be achieved through excel VBA?

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CodePudding user response:

Unless you have something strange going on here, you just change this line:

objMail.Categories = "Blue"

To

objMail.Categories = "Orange Category"

The name in the double quotes needs to be exactly the same as the one you have setup in Outlook - ie it's case sensitive.

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