copying email addresses to your address book?

[Guest]

Once all the email addresses are highlighted in blue as a hyperlink in a word
document, how can you then automatically add those email addresses to your
address book, again without having to manually click each one or cutting &
pasting each one manaully.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The following macro can be used to extract all of the email addresses from a
document

Macro to extract all of the email addresses from a document

Sub CopyAddressesToOtherDoc()


Dim Source As Document, Target As Document, myRange As Range
Set Source = ActiveDocument
Set Target = Documents.Add

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Source.Activate
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
Do While .Execute(findText:="[+0-9A-z._-]{1,}\@[A-z.]{1,}", _
MatchWildcards:=True, Wrap:=wdFindStop, Forward:=True) = True
Set myRange = Selection.Range
Target.Range.InsertAfter myRange & vbCr
Loop
End With

Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
Target.Activate

End Sub


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP