How to send a calendar to multiple recipients individually in Outlook?

Written on 08 June 2018.

How to send a calendar to multiple recipients individually in Outlook?

Normally, you can send a calendar to a recipient quickly and easily by using the E-mail Calendar feature in Outlook. If you want to send a calendar attached as iCalendar file to multiple contacts individually, you need to send it one by one. In this article, I will talk about an easy way to send a calendar to multiple recipients individually in Outlook.

Send a calendar to multiple recipients individually with VBA code

Send a calendar to multiple recipients individually with VBA code

To send a calendar to multiple recipients separately, the following VBA code can help you, please do as this:

1. Navigate to the Contacts pane, and select the contacts that you want to send calendar to.

2. Then hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

3. Click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code into the opened blank module, see screenshot:

VBA code: Send a calendar to multiple recipients individually：

Sub EmailCalendarToMultiplePersonsSeparately()
Dim xSelection As Outlook.Selection
Dim xCalendarFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim xCalendarExporter As Outlook.CalendarSharing
Dim xStartDate, xEndDate As Date
Dim xCalendarFile As String
Dim xContactItem As Outlook.ContactItem
Dim xDistListItem As Outlook.DistListItem
Dim xItem As Object
Dim xMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim xFilePath, xFileName, xEmailAddress As String
Dim xRecipient As Recipient
On Error Resume Next
xFilePath = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SpecialFolders(16) & "\MyCalendar"
If Dir(xFilePath, vbDirectory) = "" Then MkDir xFilePath
If Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer.CurrentFolder.DefaultItemType <> olContactItem Then
    MsgBox "Please Select contacts first!", vbExclamation + vbOKOnly, "Kutools for Outlook"
    Exit Sub
End If
Set xSelection = Outlook.Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
If xSelection Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Set xCalendarFolder = Outlook.Application.Session.PickFolder
If xCalendarFolder Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If xCalendarFolder.DefaultItemType <> olAppointmentItem Then Exit Sub
Set xCalendarExporter = xCalendarFolder.GetCalendarExporter
xStartDate = InputBox("Enter the start date:", "Kutools for Outlook", "")
If Len(Trim(xStartDate)) = 0 Then Exit Sub
xEndDate = InputBox("Enter the end date:", "Kutools for Outlook", "")
If Len(Trim(xEndDate)) = 0 Then Exit Sub
If xStartDate = #1/1/4501# Or xEndDate = #1/1/4501# Then Exit Sub
xFileName = "Calendar (" & Format(xStartDate, "YYYYMMDD") & " - " & Format(xEndDate, "YYYYMMDD") & ").ics"
xCalendarFile = xFilePath & "\" & xFileName
With xCalendarExporter
    .IncludeWholeCalendar = False
    .StartDate = xStartDate
    .EndDate = xEndDate
    .CalendarDetail = olFullDetails
    .IncludeAttachments = True
    .IncludePrivateDetails = False
    .RestrictToWorkingHours = False
    .SaveAsICal xCalendarFile
End With
For Each xItem In xSelection
    If xItem.Class = olContact Then
        Set xContactItem = xItem
        Set xMailItem = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
        With xMailItem
            .To = xContactItem.Email1Address
            .Recipients.ResolveAll
            .Subject = xFileName
            .Attachments.Add xCalendarFile
            .Body = "Dear " & xContactItem.FullName & "," & vbCrLf & "Type body here..."
            .Display
        End With
    End If
    If xItem.Class = olDistributionList Then
        Set xDistListItem = xItem
        For i = 1 To xDistListItem.MemberCount
            Set xRecipient = xDistListItem.GetMember(i)
            Set xMailItem = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
            With xMailItem
                .To = xRecipient.AddressEntry.Address
                .Recipients.ResolveAll
                .Subject = xFileName
                .Attachments.Add xCalendarFile
                .Body = "Dear " & xRecipient.Name & "," & vbCrLf & "Type body here..."
                .Display
            End With
        Next i
    End If
Next
End Sub

4. After inserting the code, then press F5 key to run this code, and a Select Folder dialog box is popped out, please select a calendar which you want to send, see screenshot: