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Reputation: 199

E-mail Excel range with VBA

This code in Excel (Office 365) would add an Excel range or table to a mail body.

The crucial part is for it to work in the background w/o the mail client (Outlook) being open.

I have working code (with Outlook in the background). It can only link specific or merged cells to mail body (which essentially means text and not even a simple table).

When linking a proper range (with let's say three columns and five rows), I get

"Run-time error '13': Type mismatch"

Sub Email()

    Dim xOutApp As Object
    Dim xOutMail As Object
    Dim xMailBody As String

    Set xOutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set xOutMail = xOutApp.CreateItem(0)
    xMailBody = "E-MAIL BODY TEXT" & vbNewLine & _
    Range("ARRAY")
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
    With xOutMail
        .To = "[email protected]"
        .CC = ""
        .BCC = ""
        .Subject = "Mail subject"
        .Body = xMailBody
        .Send
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0

    Set xOutMail = Nothing
    Set xOutApp = Nothing

End Sub

I have other code which is able to grab a range (sort of) from the sheet and send it as a table. It only runs when Outlook is open and running & producing an error message otherwise.

Sub Email2()

    Dim sh As Worksheet
    Set sh = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")

    Dim lr As Integer

    lr = sh.Range("D" & Application.Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

    sh.Range("D5:F" & lr).Select

    With Selection.Parent.MailEnvelope.Item
    .to = "[email protected]"
    .bcc = ""
    .Subject = ""
    .send
    
    End With
End Sub

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9312

Answers (1)

ASH
ASH

Reputation: 20302

This code is a little more complex that what you showed, but it should do the job just fine. Obviously, modify it to suit your needs.

Sub Mail_Selection_Range_Outlook_Body()
'For Tips see: http://www.rondebruin.nl/win/winmail/Outlook/tips.htm
'Don't forget to copy the function RangetoHTML in the module.
'Working in Excel 2000-2016
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim OutApp As Object
    Dim OutMail As Object

    Set rng = Nothing
    On Error Resume Next
    'Only the visible cells in the selection
    Set rng = Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
    'You can also use a fixed range if you want
    'Set rng = Sheets("YourSheet").Range("D4:D12").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
    On Error GoTo 0

    If rng Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox "The selection is not a range or the sheet is protected" & _
               vbNewLine & "please correct and try again.", vbOKOnly
        Exit Sub
    End If

    With Application
        .EnableEvents = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
    End With

    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)

    On Error Resume Next
    With OutMail
        .To = "[email protected]"
        .CC = ""
        .BCC = ""
        .Subject = "This is the Subject line"
        .HTMLBody = RangetoHTML(rng)
        .Send   'or use .Display
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0

    With Application
        .EnableEvents = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
    End With

    Set OutMail = Nothing
    Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub


Function RangetoHTML(rng As Range)
' Changed by Ron de Bruin 28-Oct-2006
' Working in Office 2000-2016
    Dim fso As Object
    Dim ts As Object
    Dim TempFile As String
    Dim TempWB As Workbook

    TempFile = Environ$("temp") & "\" & Format(Now, "dd-mm-yy h-mm-ss") & ".htm"

    'Copy the range and create a new workbook to past the data in
    rng.Copy
    Set TempWB = Workbooks.Add(1)
    With TempWB.Sheets(1)
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial Paste:=8
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteValues, , False, False
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats, , False, False
        .Cells(1).Select
        Application.CutCopyMode = False
        On Error Resume Next
        .DrawingObjects.Visible = True
        .DrawingObjects.Delete
        On Error GoTo 0
    End With

    'Publish the sheet to a htm file
    With TempWB.PublishObjects.Add( _
         SourceType:=xlSourceRange, _
         Filename:=TempFile, _
         Sheet:=TempWB.Sheets(1).Name, _
         Source:=TempWB.Sheets(1).UsedRange.Address, _
         HtmlType:=xlHtmlStatic)
        .Publish (True)
    End With

    'Read all data from the htm file into RangetoHTML
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set ts = fso.GetFile(TempFile).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
    RangetoHTML = ts.readall
    ts.Close
    RangetoHTML = Replace(RangetoHTML, "align=center x:publishsource=", _
                          "align=left x:publishsource=")

    'Close TempWB
    TempWB.Close savechanges:=False

    'Delete the htm file we used in this function
    Kill TempFile

    Set ts = Nothing
    Set fso = Nothing
    Set TempWB = Nothing
End Function

Upvotes: 1

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