Create a contact in a non-default Outlook contact folder

Question

I would like to create a contact in a non-default Outlook contact folder with Excel VBA 2010.

In this example, the folder name is “azerty”, located in
\\mypersonna

Answer 1

If you need to create an Outlook item in the specific folder use the Add method of the Items class instead.

Dim myolApp As Outlook.Application
Dim myNamespace As Outlook.Namespace
Set myolApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNamespace = myolApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Folder = myNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts).Parent.Folders("azerty")
Set objContact = Folder.Items.Add(olContactItem)
With objContact
  .Email1Address = "example@ex.com "
  .FirstName = "Joe"
  .LastName = "Mc"
  .HomeTelephoneNumber = "99 99 99 99 99"
  .HomeAddressCity = "Xlcity"
  .Save
End With

Or move the item to the target folder using the Move method after creation.

Dim myolApp As Outlook.Application
Dim myNamespace As Outlook.Namespace
Set myolApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set myNamespace = myolApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Folder = myNamespace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts).Parent.Folders("azerty")
Set objContact = myolApp.CreateItem(olContactItem)
With objContact
  .Email1Address = "example@ex.com "
  .FirstName = "Joe"
  .LastName = "Mc"
  .HomeTelephoneNumber = "99 99 99 99 99"
  .HomeAddressCity = "Xlcity"
  .Save
  .Move Folder 
End With

You can read more about that in the How To: Create a new Outlook Contact item programmatically article.