Microsoft KB Archive/292459

= OL2002: How to Delete Items in a Collection =

Article ID: 292459

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q292459





SUMMARY
This article describes how to use the Outlook object model to delete items in a collection.



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If you want to programmatically delete all of the members of a collection, there are a few approaches that will work but there are also a number of approaches that will not work. Unexpected results occur because a collection is changing as you delete members in it and the collection is not updated dynamically. Typically you will find that every other item in the collection is deleted.

The following automation code example exhibits this behavior. Before running this code, create a subfolder of your Inbox called Test and copy (not move) some items into the folder so that they can be deleted. Sub DeleteItems Set ol = New Outlook.Application Set olns = ol.GetNamespace(&quot;MAPI&quot;) Set TestFolder = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders(&quot;Test&quot;) Set TestItems = TestFolder.Items For Each Itm In TestItems Itm.Delete Next End Sub To delete all items in a collection, delete the items from the collection in reverse order using the following approach: Sub DeleteItems Set ol = New Outlook.Application Set olns = ol.GetNamespace(&quot;MAPI&quot;) Set TestFolder = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders(&quot;test&quot;) Set TestItems = TestFolder.Items NumItems = TestItems.Count For I = NumItems To 1 Step -1 TestItems(I).Delete Next End Sub If you need to delete a single item from a collection and want to make sure the collection is properly indexed, you may need to retrieve the collection of items again. In the example above, the following line of code retrieves the items from the folder again: Set TestItems = TestFolder.Items

