Sounds Sets For Outlook 2016

  

Go to “ Control Panel ” “ Hardware and Sound ” “ Sounds “. From there, you can select “ Desktop Mail Notification ” and “ New Mail Notification ” in the list, then use the “ Sounds ” dropdown menu to select a desired sound. You can also select “ Browse ” to select almost any WAV formatted sound. Open Control Panel. The easiest way to find Sound is to open Control Panel in Windows, and then in the Search box at the top of window, type Sound. On the Sound dialog box, on the Sounds tab, under Program Events, under Windows, click New Mail Notification. Click Browse, and then select a different audio file. Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016. When you are using Outlook 2013, make sure you are up-to-date before re-adding your account (at least version 15.0.4737.1000). Step 1: Re-add your account via Auto Account Setup. Stream Outlook Festival music Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud. Help your audience discover your sounds. Let your audience know what to hear first. With any Pro plan, get Spotlight to showcase the best of your music & audio at the top of your profile. Learn more about Pro.

When I receive an email from a certain contact or Contact Group, can I get a different “New Email” sound than the default?

You can set a custom sound for a specific contact (or by a variety of any other specific message property) by using a rule.

  1. Open the Rules and Alerts wizard:
    • Outlook 2007 and previous
      Tools-> Rules and Alerts…
    • Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
      File-> Manage Rules & Alerts
  2. Press the New Rule… button and start with a blank rule:
    • Outlook 2003
      Start from a blank rule
    • Outlook 2007
      Check messages when they arrive
    • Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
      Apply rule on messages I receive
  3. In the next screen you can select the conditions.
    In our case we select: from people or public group.
  4. In the bottom section, click “people or public group” to select the address(es) from your Address Book.
  5. Click Next to go to the Actions screen.
  6. Select the action: play a sound.
  7. In the bottom section click “a sound” to select a sound file from your computer.
    • Note that you should use a wav-file for this.
  8. Click next to advance to the next screen to set any exceptions when needed.
  9. Once you’ve done that (or skipped that), click Next to give the rule a name.
  10. Click Finish and then OK to close the open windows.


Via the “Play a Sound” rule action, you can hear who is emailing you.

Note: You can of course make many variations with this rule. For instance, you can opt to only hear a sound for people who are in your Contacts folder and disable the default sound in Outlook altogether (see below). For this you must use the condition “sender is in specified Address Book”.

Double New Mail Sound

When a new message arrives, you could now hear a double sound; the default Outlook sound and the one we just configured to play via a rule.

You can work around this by disabling the default sound in Outlook and instead create an extra “play a sound” rule with the default Windows Notify Email.wav sound.

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Additionally, add the condition “stop processing rules” action to the rule we created for the specific contact and sort the rules in such a way that the rule for the specific contact is listed above the one for playing the generic sound.

To disable the default email sound in Outlook go to;

  • Outlook 2007 and previous
    Tools-> Options…-> E-mail Options…-> Advanced E-mail Options…-> section: When new items arrive in my Inbox-> option: Play a sound
  • Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
    File-> Options-> section: Mail-> option group: Message arrival-> option: Play a sound

In Microsoft Office, we use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for creating custom programs that enhance Office’s basic functionality and help save time by automating repetitive tasks. We refer to these small VBA programs as Macros.

In this tutorial, we wanted to provide the web’s most complete Macro development resource for Outlook. We will focus on exploring the basics of Outlook VBA for beginners, learn to write macros and then look into some more advanced useful macro ideas. Based on feedback we got, after going though this tutorial, you should be able to develop and run simple VBA macros for Outlook.

  • Basics first: We’ll learn how to insert and save a simple custom VBA macro into an active Outlook Session.
  • We’ll then set up the macro development environment in our computer.
  • We’ll go through the most basic examples of Outlook VBA. This will help you to grasp the Macro development basics and allow you to write simple macros.
  • Next, we’ll go ahead and define a shortcut icon for our macro in the Quick Access Toolbar. This will allow the us to run the macro with ease.
  • 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.

Can i record an Outlook Macro?

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. 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.

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.

Writing VBA Macros in Outlook

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  1. First off, open Microsoft Outlook.
  2. Now, go ahead and hit the Alt button + F11.
  3. The VBA developer Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will be opened.
  4. Expand the project tree until the ThisOutlookSession node.
  5. Right click ThisOutlookSession and then hit Insert.
  6. You’ll now going to inset a Visual Basic module. To accomplish that, go ahead and select Module.
  7. Paste your VBA code into the Module window.
  8. Hit File then select Save.
  9. Go ahead and close the Developer environment. This will bring you back to your Outlook user interface.

Note: Read on for some simple code examples to get you started with VBA. Never copy VBA code from unknown resources.

How to setup the developer tab in Outlook?

If you’ll be frequently developing Outlook Macros, you may want to set up your Office development environment. Sounds fancy isn’t it? Actually it’s quite a simple procedure. Read on for the details:

  1. Open Outlook, right click on the upper Ribbon area and select Customize the Ribbon.
  1. Check the Developer entry and hit OK.
  1. Now you will find the Developer menu in the Ribbon.

Useful Outlook VBA examples

Create an email message

This simple snippet creates a new email message item programmatically.

The script starts by creating an Outlook mail item, then it sets the to, subject, body text and CC fields. Finally it displays the message in Outlook so you can review and send it manually.

Advanced Note: You are able to use predefined Outlook templates when defining new emails with VBA. In order to do that, you’ll need to leverage the method CreateItemFromTemplate and specify the location of your Outlook template file (*.oft ).

Send an email programmatically

If you want Outlook to send out the email you have just created automatically, you can add the following line to the code posted above. Paste the following line before the End Sub statement of the previous snippet.

Attach a file to an email

In many instances you would like to automate sending an email with a file attached to it. This could be a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, Powerpoint presentation, PDF documents etc’. If you want to send an email with attachments programmatically, use this code:

Notes:

  • Please ensure that you set the correct path and attachment file name in the snippet.
  • In this example i have set multiple recipients to the email, kindly adjust as required.

Create a task with VBA

The following snippet creates an Outlook task, assigns it to another individual and sets the task subject and body text.

Save as HTML

Few readers asked how to automate saving emails to HTML. The code below accomplishes exactly that.

Note: Ensure that you launch this code only on emails that are open in Outlook (not in the Inbox/Explorer view).

Outlook Macros related questions

Where are Macros stored in Outlook?

You might be wandering where exactly your used Macro is stored. Well, unlike in Excel for example, which allows you to store macros in the personal.xlb file or in specific spreadsheets; all Microsoft Outlook macros are stored in one global file in your file system. Specifically, the file storing all you Macros is named VBAProject.otm. The file can be found at: C:users<your_user_name>AppDataRoamingMicrosoftOutlook.

Shortcut button for Outlook macros

Our next step is to insert a small shortcut button which will allow us to easily run the macro. For simplicity, we’ll insert this button to the Quick Access toolbar.

  1. Open Microsoft Outlook, if it’s not opened yet.
  2. Right click on the upper Outlook Ribbon and select Customize the Quick Access Toolbar.

Note: You can use a similar procedure to place your icon in the Ribbon itself instead of in the Quick Access Toolbar.

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  1. Hit the ‘Choose commands from‘ combo box and select Macros.
  1. Select the macro you just created and hit Add.
  1. Hit Modify to define a custom icon picture for your Quick access toolbar button.
  1. When done, hit OK.

How to enable a macro in Outlook?

This step is optional and should be followed only if you receive an error message when running your newly created macro.

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  1. Next is to allow Outlook to run our VBA macro. By default, Microsoft Office disables macros and doesn’t allow them; so we’ll need to define the proper macro security to allow your custom Outlook macro to run.
  2. In Outlook 2016, click on Developer in the ribbon and select Macro security.
  1. Select your Macro security settings.
    1. In Outlook 2016: SelectNotifications for only digitally signed macros, all other disabled or Notifications for all macros .
    2. In Outlook 2019: Select Disable All Macros with Notification. This will post a warning message requiring user approval before your macro runs.
  2. After setting your Macro security settings, hit OK.

Note: Your current security settings might prevent Macros from running in Outlook. Here’s a tutorial on how to proceed if Macros are disabled in your Outlook Macro project.

How to use your Outlook macro?

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Last but definitely not least, now it’s time to run your newly created macro.

  1. Navigate to the Quick Access toolbar (upper left hand side of the screen – slightly above the HOME menu).
  2. Hit the icon you have assigned to your macro.
  3. Voi’la, you have just completed and run your (first) Outlook VBA macro!

Additional Outlook Macros ideas

Several of our readers asked whether we could specify further ideas for Outlook Automation. Here are a few ones to get started.

  1. Automatically save attachments in incoming messages into a specific folder.
  2. Read a list of appointments entries from a CSV file and automatically create appointments in one or more calendars.
  3. Automatic task/meeting/contact creation out of incoming emails.
  4. Visualize status of attendees response status to a set of recurring meetings.
  5. Send Outlook emails from Excel, Word or Access.
  6. Download all attachments from a specific Outlook folder into your computer. If your Outlook Account space is limited, you could use this macro to specifically download only large attachments (over 5Mb for instance) to your disk, instead of managing them in Outlook.
  7. Export Outlook contacts directly into an Access database. Note that Export contacts to CSV is available in the product.
  8. Automatically update meeting information for individual or recurring appointments.

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