I need a mechanism to enable users to run a macro that will copy all their
appointments of a certain category (e.g., "board meeting") to a shared
calendar.

or

a macro that runs through each users calendar and scans for appointments in
that category and copies to a central calendar.

Try the macro below. It'll prompt you to choose the destination Calendar,
and use the default Calendar as the source for items to copy from. Change
the "Test" comparison string to look for a Category of your choice.

Sub CopyAppointmentsByCategoryToSharedCalendar()
Dim objMyCal As Outlook.MAPIFolder, objDestCal As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim objItem As Outlook.AppointmentItem, objNewItem As
Outlook.AppointmentItem

Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set objMyCal = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderCalendar) 'Get default
Calendar folder

'Select Destination Calendar to copy appointments to
Set objDestCal = objNS.PickFolder
If objDestCal.DefaultItemType olAppointmentItem Then
MsgBox "You must choose a Calendar folder.", vbOKOnly +
vbExclamation, "Invalid Folder"
Exit Sub
End If


For Each objItem In objMyCal.Items
If InStr(objItem.Categories, "Test") 0 Then
Set objNewItem = objItem.Copy
objNewItem.Move objDestCal
End If
Next

Set objMyCal = Nothing
Set objDestCal = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objNewItem = Nothing
End Sub

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"Gaurav" wrote:

I need a mechanism to enable users to run a macro that will copy all their
appointments of a certain category (e.g., "board meeting") to a shared
calendar.

or

a macro that runs through each users calendar and scans for appointments in
that category and copies to a central calendar.