This Tiny VBA Can Send Email to All contacts in Your Outlook

How to Send email to all contacts in Outlook?

Use one of the following methods to send Email blast from Outlook. i.e., mass email in Outlook to a large audience.

• Outlook Create Distribution List – Create Email group in Outlook
• Using VBA Code – Send mass email Outlook

These 2 are not the only possible methods to send mass email. There can be other possible methods and software products also to do this. Here, we have explained 2 possible methods (one manual & other Automation using VBA) to do this. Lets start with the manual method.

How to Send Mass email?

1. Outlook Create Distribution List

To create email distribution list in Outlook follow the below instruction.

1. Click on drop down near “New” in Outlook menu.
2. Select “Distribution List” (or Keyboard shortcut – “Ctrl + Shift + L”).
3. In the new window, fill ‘Name’ field & then click ‘Select Members’.
4. Choose the “Address Book” name from the dropdown list in Popup window.
5. Select all members in the contacts list. (Choose first contact in list & press shift + last contact).
6. Click on “Members” button at to add contacts to distribution list.
7. Repeat steps 4 – 5, if there is more than one Address Book.
8. Click ‘Ok’, once all contacts are selected and added to Members field

This will create distribution list in Outlook & save it as a new contact entry. You can see the new entry in Outlook Contacts with the name that you entered in Step 3. Let’s see how to send a mass email in Outlook with this email distribution list.

Also Read: Excel VBA - Convert Column Number to English Alphabet Letter

2. Send Email Blast from Outlook – Manual Method

Create a new Outlook Email Item (Keyboard shortcut – ‘Ctrl + Shift + M’) & then click on ‘To’, ‘CC’ or ‘Bcc’ button. It will open a popup window to select Names from Contacts. Double click on “All Contacts” (or the name entered while creating distribution list) & click ‘Ok’.

This email group list is now added to the new email item. Fill subject, email content & click ‘Send’. This will send the email to all the email addresses added to distribution list.

Also Read: Excel VBA - Convert Column Letter to Number

How to Send a Mass Email in Outlook using VBA?

Use this Tiny VBA code that will automatically pick all contacts from Outlook and send batch email to all.

Also this is a good stating place to learn how VBA create email from Outlook. These VBA create email code or sending email to distribution list methods are all very useful if you have to send Outlook mass email to promote you business, market a product, organization level information messages or if you are job seeker, it will be useful to send resume to big list of companies.

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