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Outlook Meeting Attendees In The Invite Body

Personally I do not like the way that Microsoft Outlook prints out meetings especially the fact that attendees are a comma separated list.
I prefer to see all the attendees as a tabular list – with their acceptance response so that I can tick them off as they join the meeting.

The following macro will do this for you.
NOTE 1 : this macro is amending the text of the body of the meeting invite, if you save this and send an update – everyone will see this. I prefer to just run the macro, print the meeting and then close without saving.
NOTE 2 : this is a one off snapshot of the attendee status, if further responses or updates are received you will have to delete the old text then re-run the macro.

Create the following macro (Alt+F11)

Public Sub UpdateAppointmentWithAttendees()
    
    Dim item As Object
    Dim olAppointmentItem As Outlook.AppointmentItem
    Dim objAttendees As Outlook.Recipients
    Dim strAttendees, strMeetStatus As String
    Dim x   As Integer
        
    If TypeName(Application.ActiveWindow) = "Inspector" Then
        Set item = Application.ActiveWindow.CurrentItem
        If TypeOf item Is Outlook.AppointmentItem Then
            Set olAppointmentItem = item
            Set objAttendees = olAppointmentItem.Recipients
            strAttendees = "Attendee Status : " & vbLf & vbLf
            For x = 1 To objAttendees.Count
                Select Case objAttendees(x).MeetingResponseStatus
                    Case 0
                        strMeetStatus = "No Response (or Organiser)"
                    Case 1
                        strMeetStatus = "Organiser"
                    Case 2
                        strMeetStatus = "Tentative"
                    Case 3
                        strMeetStatus = "Accepted"
                    Case 4
                        strMeetStatus = "Declined"
                End Select
                strAttendees = strAttendees & objAttendees(x).Name & " : " & strMeetStatus & vbLf
            Next x
            olAppointmentItem.Body = strAttendees & vbLf & "--------" & vbLf & vbLf & olAppointmentItem.Body
        Else
            MsgBox ("Ony works from an appointment !")
        End If
    End If
End Sub

You can then run this macro when you have a meeting open – I have added the macro to the toolbar for ease of access.

3 replies on “Outlook Meeting Attendees In The Invite Body”

Very nice!

This makes checking off the people attending large meetings easier.

Is there a macro to convert the highlighted list into a table, using the : as the column delimiter? 🙂

I could record the Macro I guess, and see if that works.

OK can’t record macros it seems in Outlook, but I did find this as a starting point and customized it a little for my preferences.
Highlight the list of invitees and then use this macro:

Sub Convert_Text_To_Table()

Dim oDoc As Word.Document

Dim oInspector As Outlook.Inspector

Dim oSelection As Word.Range

Set oInspector = Application.ActiveInspector

Set oDoc = oInspector.WordEditor

Set oSelection = oDoc.Application.Selection.Range

oSelection.ConvertToTable , , , , wdTableFormatGrid1

Set oSelection = Nothing

Set oDoc = Nothing

Set oInspector = Nothing

End Sub

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