Outlook 2007 - How to automatically remove attachments from a large number of calendar items?
The Vice President of our company has 120MB of Calendar items in his Exchange Outlook mailbox. I believe the majority of this is caused by meeting attachments. How can I quickly and easy remove all attachments from old meetings? He is using Outlook 2007.
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But that will delete the calendar event completely. I would like to delete the attachment from the item while still keeping the record of the meeting.
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That macro works great for removing attachments from e-mail messages. However, I'm having difficulty applying this to calendar items. If I bring up an Advanced Find window, select a calendar item, and run the macro - it will actually run the macro in the background on whatever e-mail message I have selected. It does not run on the selected item in the foreground Advanced Find window. If I can figure out another way to display calendar items like regular e-mail messages it will probably work.
Switch the view on the calendar folder to All Appointments. Then select the ones you want to run the macro against.
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2. Under "Look For," the default is set to look for Messages. Change that to Appointments and Meetings.
3. Leave the Search for the word(s) field blank.
4. Click Find Now. You'll see all your Calendar events displayed in the pane below.
5. Select all the appointments and meetings by using Ctrl-A.
6. Press the Del key to delete all the events. Depending on how many events you have, it may take a while for Outlook 2007 to delete them so be patient.