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Now, go ahead and hit the Alt button + F11.Note: If you are interested to know how the Office macro recorder actually works, i would recommend to look into the MS Word Macros and Excel VBA Macro tutorials. Therefore, if we want to add our own custom functionality to Outlook, we’ll need to learn to write simple VBA programs and incorporate them into our Outlook session. Unlike other Office apps, Outlook does not offer a simple Macro recorder to capture user actions and auto-generate the required VBA code for us in the background.
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And we’ll finish by enabling Outlook macros and handling their security settings to ensure that the code will actually run when prompted in our computers.This will allow the us to run the macro with ease.
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Next, we’ll go ahead and define a shortcut icon for our macro in the Quick Access Toolbar.This will help you to grasp the Macro development basics and allow you to write simple macros. We’ll go through the most basic examples of Outlook VBA.We’ll then set up the macro development environment in our computer.