How to access contact groups in Excel VBA?

Question

I am building an Excel add-in that sends the active workbook as an attachment in an Outlook email template to a specific Contact Group.

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Answer 1

In order to have the recipient's email addresses or names resolved (so they don't display just plain text), you can do the following.

With OutMail
    '.TO field should be set to the contact group
    .BCC = ""
    .Attachments.Add ActiveWorkbook.FullName
    .HTMLBody = Replace(OutMail.HTMLBody, strOldPeriod, strNewPeriod)
    .Subject = Replace(OutMail.Subject, strOldPeriod, strNewPeriod)
    'To display the email leave as is;  to send the Email, change to .Send
    .Display    'or Send
    If Not .Recipients.ResolveAll Then
        For Each Recipient In .Recipients
            If Not Recipient.Resolved Then
                MsgBox Recipient.Name & " could not be resolved"
            End If
        Next 
    End If
End With

Answer 2

Just use the name of the contact group (formerly called "distribution lists"). I just tried it, as suggested on Ron de Bruin's site, and it works.