I am having considerable difficulty figuring this one out. I can paste a range as HTML without issues, but in some communications we want to past the range as a picture instead. I can create a range and save it as a picture, but I cannot figure out how to past the picture into Outlook after it is created.
If you are just looking for code that will copy a range and paste it into Outlook, this works great. All of the email data is referencing cells on a tab called Mail, so you can simply copy and paste the Mail tab and the macro into any workbook and add email automation by editing the fields on the mail tab and not changing the macro. If you use this code, make sure to reference Microsoft Outlook x.x Object Library (In VBA Window: Tools - References - Microsoft Outlook x.x Object Library).
I need to take this one step further and be able to turn the range into a picture and paste it into the email. I can attach it, but I cannot insert it into the body, which is what I need. I have looked at several examples, including those on Ron DeBruins website, but I have not been able to get any of them to work. I am running Windows 7 x64 With Office 2010 x64.
Here is the code I am running to paste a range.
Option Explicit
Sub Mail_AS_Range()
' Working in Office 2010-2013
Dim OutApp As Outlook.Application
Dim OutMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim strbody As String
On Error Resume Next
Dim sh As Worksheet
Set sh = Sheets("Mail")
strbody = sh.Range("C9").Value
Sheets(sh.Range("C11").Value).Select
ActiveWorkbook.Save
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
With OutMail
.SentOnBehalfOfName = sh.Range("C4") 'This allows us to send from an alternate email address
.Display 'Alternate send address will not work if we do not display the email first.
'I dont know why but this step is a MUST
.To = sh.Range("C5")
.CC = sh.Range("C6")
.BCC = sh.Range("C7")
.Subject = sh.Range("C8").Value
.HTMLBody = "<br>" & strbody & fncRangeToHtml(sh.Range("C13").Value, sh.Range("C14").Value) & .HTMLBody
' This is where the body of the email is pulled together.
' <br> is an HTML tag to turn the text into HTML
' strbody is your text from cell C9 on the mail tab
' fncRangetoHtml is converting the range you specified into HTML
' .HTMLBody inserts your email signature
.Attachments.Add sh.Range("C10").Value
'.Send
End With
On Error GoTo 0
Set OutMail = Nothing
Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub
Private Function fncRangeToHtml( _
strWorksheetName As String, _
strRangeAddress As String) As String
' This is creating a private function to make the range specified in the Mail macro into HTML
Dim objFilesytem As Object, objTextstream As Object, objShape As Shape
Dim strFilename As String, strTempText As String
Dim blnRangeContainsShapes As Boolean
strFilename = Environ$("temp") & "\" & _
Format(Now, "dd-mm-yy_h-mm-ss") & ".htm"
ThisWorkbook.PublishObjects.Add( _
SourceType:=xlSourceRange, _
Filename:=strFilename, _
Sheet:=strWorksheetName, _
Source:=strRangeAddress, _
HtmlType:=xlHtmlStatic).Publish True
Set objFilesytem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextstream = objFilesytem.GetFile(strFilename).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
strTempText = objTextstream.ReadAll
objTextstream.Close
strTempText = Replace(strTempText, "align=center x:publishsource=", "align=left x:publishsource=")
For Each objShape In Worksheets(strWorksheetName).Shapes
If Not Intersect(objShape.TopLeftCell, Worksheets( _
strWorksheetName).Range(strRangeAddress)) Is Nothing Then
blnRangeContainsShapes = True
Exit For
End If
Next
If blnRangeContainsShapes Then strTempText = fncConvertPictureToMail(strTempText, Worksheets(strWorksheetName))
fncRangeToHtml = strTempText
Set objTextstream = Nothing
Set objFilesytem = Nothing
Kill strFilename
End Function
Public Function fncConvertPictureToMail(strTempText As String, objWorksheet As Worksheet) As String
Const HTM_START = "<link rel=File-List href="
Const HTM_END = "/filelist.xml"
Dim strTemp As String
Dim lngPathLeft As Long
lngPathLeft = InStr(1, strTempText, HTM_START)
strTemp = Mid$(strTempText, lngPathLeft, InStr(lngPathLeft, strTempText, ">") - lngPathLeft)
strTemp = Replace(strTemp, HTM_START & Chr$(34), "")
strTemp = Replace(strTemp, HTM_END & Chr$(34), "")
strTemp = strTemp & "/"
strTempText = Replace(strTempText, strTemp, Environ$("temp") & "\" & strTemp)
fncConvertPictureToMail = strTempText
End Function
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
