Outlook Email Template Copies To Field to Body

Question

Is it possible to have a certain spot in the Body of a message get automatically filled in by what's in the To field? Likewise with the Subject field? So, I am building an email template that multiple people will use and I am looking ot make it e4asier for them to use by having the name in To Filed automatically populate in the greeting. Also, the Subject will change with each use and I would like the Subject field to automatically populate at a specific spot in Body.

Example:

To: Joe Smith
Subject: Article 123456

Hi Joe Smith,

Regarding Article 123456...

Answer 1

Hi @Geoff Satterfield ,

Welcome to our forum!

As far as I know, from outlook, you can use auto fill feature to fill a name in the email body:

1. Open a new Mail and navigate to ‘Quick Parts’ > Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Quick Parts> and select the word of phrase which you want to insert.
   https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Automate-common-or-repetitive-tasks-with-Quick-Steps-B184F89F-3738-4562-96DE-C0244EA830F2

Is it possible to have a certain spot in the Body of a message get automatically filled in by what's in the To field?

According to my search, you'll need to use a macro. Here is an article about Make Outlook email template with variables using VBA.
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Please kindly understand that the tag” office-outlook-itpro” which mainly focus on general issues about Outlook desktop client, and we do know little about development, it is recommended you post your thread with "office-vba-dev" tag, so people in that forum can help you.

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