How to Auto Add Greetings to Reply Messages with Outlook VBA

Outlook Data Recovery, Outlook Solutions February 9, 2017

In general, when replying an email, we get used to adding the greetings. Someone even hopes that Outlook can auto add greetings depending on the recipient name. Actually it can be realized with Outlook VBA. This article will introduce it in detail.

As normal, when we reply an email, we will always write some greetings at the beginning of the message body. You may feel it a bit cumbersome since you don’t want to type the same greeting line every time. In reality, you can avoid it via Outlook “Quick Parts” feature, which permits you to save the same greetings as Quick Part. Since then, you can directly insert it without needs to type manually.Add Greetings Via Quick Parts

However, this function is unable to auto identify the recipient, so it cannot add a personalized greeting, namely includes the recipient name. Also, some users still want to make it totally automatic even without them inserting manually. Focused on this kind of requirement, here is a quick method to achieve it via Outlook VBA.

Auto Add Greetings to Reply Messages

  1. In the first place, launch Outlook and switch to “Developer” tab.
  2. Then you need to click on the “Visual Basic” button.
  3. Subsequently, a new window will show up. Then in it, you ought to open a blank module or insert a new module.
  4. Next in the new module, you can copy and paste the following VBA codes into it.
Sub AutoAddGreetingtoReply()
    Dim oMail As MailItem
    Dim oReply As MailItem
    Dim GreetTime As String
 
    Select Case Application.ActiveWindow.Class
           Case olInspector
                Set oMail = ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
           Case olExplorer
                Set oMail = ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
    End Select
 
    Select Case Time
           Case 0.3 To 0.5
                GreetTime = "Good morning!"
           Case 0.5 To 0.75
                GreetTime = "Good afternoon!"
           Case Else
                GreetTime = "Good evening!"
    End Select
 
    Set oReply = oMail.Reply
 
    With oReply
         .HTMLBody = "<HTML><Body>Dear " & oMail.SenderName & ", </HTML></Body>" & GreetTime & .HTMLBody
         .Display
    End With
End Sub

VBA Codes - Auto Add Greetings to Reply Messages

  1. After that, you can exit the current window and change your macro settings. Click on the “Macro Security” button and then set the macro level to be low.
  2. Later you need to add the new VBA project to ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar. Here we will take Quick Access Toolbar as an example.
  • Firstly, click down arrow in Quick Access Toolbar and select “More Commands”.
  • Then in popup window, add the new macro to Quick Access Toolbar by following the steps shown in the image below.Add the AutoAddGreetingtoReply Macro to Quick Access Toolbar
  1. Eventually, you can have a try.
  • Firstly, select an email and hit the macro button in Quick Access Toolbar.Click the macro button
  • Then a new reply message will pop up. Greetings have been added to the message body automatically, like the following image.Automatic Greetings

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Author Introduction:

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