Hello.

I would like to do bulk modifications to the "Category" field of
approx. 900+ contacts.
Does anyone have an example (or know a good site) that would have code
samples to accomplish this on the fly?

Thank you.

Simply loop through the Items collection of the contact folder. Each item
has a Categories property, into which you can write. Then call the item's
Save method.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Keep your Outlook categories organized!
http://www.shareit.com/product.html?...4&languageid=1
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Am 10 Jan 2007 12:26:43 -0800 schrieb RLN:

> Hello.
>
> I would like to do bulk modifications to the "Category" field of
> approx. 900+ contacts.
> Does anyone have an example (or know a good site) that would have code
> samples to accomplish this on the fly?
>
> Thank you.

Michael,
My apologies for the late reply.
Is this something that can be done efficiently in VBScript or are there
other methods you would recommend?


Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
> Simply loop through the Items collection of the contact folder. Each item
> has a Categories property, into which you can write. Then call the item's
> Save method.
>
> --
> Viele Gruesse / Best regards
> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
> Keep your Outlook categories organized!
> http://www.shareit.com/product.html?...4&languageid=1
> (German: http://www.VBOffice.net/product.html?pub=6)
>
>
> Am 10 Jan 2007 12:26:43 -0800 schrieb RLN:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I would like to do bulk modifications to the "Category" field of
> > approx. 900+ contacts.
> > Does anyone have an example (or know a good site) that would have code
> > samples to accomplish this on the fly?
> >
> > Thank you.

If it's needed only once then it doesn't matter. The loop would be faster
though with CDO 1.21 or Redemption (www.dimastr.com).

If you like a comfortable user interface for editing categories then you
might try my Addin, download the English demo via ShareIT (sig below).

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
Keep your Outlook categories organized!
http://www.shareit.com/product.html?...4&languageid=1
(German: http://www.VBOffice.net/product.html?pub=6)


Am 22 Jan 2007 12:10:52 -0800 schrieb RLN:

> Michael,
> My apologies for the late reply.
> Is this something that can be done efficiently in VBScript or are there
> other methods you would recommend?
>
>
> Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
>> Simply loop through the Items collection of the contact folder. Each item
>> has a Categories property, into which you can write. Then call the item's
>> Save method.
>>
>> --
>> Viele Gruesse / Best regards
>> Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
>> Keep your Outlook categories organized!
>> http://www.shareit.com/product.html?...4&languageid=1
>> (German: http://www.VBOffice.net/product.html?pub=6)
>>
>>
>> Am 10 Jan 2007 12:26:43 -0800 schrieb RLN:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I would like to do bulk modifications to the "Category" field of
>>> approx. 900+ contacts.
>>> Does anyone have an example (or know a good site) that would have code
>>> samples to accomplish this on the fly?
>>>
>>> Thank you.

Michael...thank you for this utility...Again my apologies for the late
reply. I need to better manange my newsgroup monitoring...maybe set
something up somehow where I get receive email when someone posts a
response so my reply doesn't appear rude when tardy.

RLN