Hi I have a worksheet that I need to send as an email, including the image (our company logo), it is being sent externally so has to have the image. I have tried a few different things but nothing seems to work. The best I have come up with is the below (my function works fine for the cell values but adding the image is just not working) but this has 2 issues, the first is that it only opens the dialogue box to choose the image file, the second is that the picture is inserted as a link so it can't be displayed on the email.
Dim fNameAndPath As Variant
Dim img As Picture
fNameAndPath = Application.GetOpenFilename(Title:="filepath\name.extension")
If fNameAndPath = False Then Exit Sub
Set img = ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert(fNameAndPath)
With img
.Left = ActiveSheet.Range("D2").Left
.Top = ActiveSheet.Range("D2").Top
.Width = ActiveSheet.Range("D2:H2").Width
.Height = ActiveSheet.Range("D2:D6").Height
.Placement = 1
.PrintObject = True
End With
I have pasted the whole sub and function below in case there is something else I can change elsewhere to make this happen, I use this code in another workbook to create an email from a workbook with no image and it works great so I'm pretty sure the problem is the picture. I have changed the 'TempWB.Close savechanges' code to True and removed the 'Kill TempFile' instructin so I can check that the new file has the image which it does, so the issue lays in the Excel to Outlook part of the function.
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim rng As Range
Dim OutApp As Object
Dim OutMail As Object
Set rng = Nothing
Set rng = ActiveSheet.Range("B2:L67").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
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)
With OutMail
.Subject = ActiveSheet.Range("R3")
.HTMLBody = RangetoHTML(rng)
.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)
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"
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 GoTo 0
End With
Dim fNameAndPath As Variant
Dim img As Picture
fNameAndPath = Application.GetOpenFilename(Title:="filenameandpath")
If fNameAndPath = False Then Exit Sub
Set img = ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert(fNameAndPath)
With img
.Left = ActiveSheet.Range("D2").Left
.Top = ActiveSheet.Range("D2").Top
.Width = ActiveSheet.Range("D2:H2").Width
.Height = ActiveSheet.Range("D2:D6").Height
.Placement = 1
.PrintObject = True
End With
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
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=")
TempWB.Close savechanges:=False
Kill TempFile
Set ts = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
Set TempWB = Nothing
End Function
I tried to add LinkToFile:=msoFalse in the hope that would insert the image rather than a link to the file but I get a syntax error no matter where I put it! I've also tried all the suggestions in How to insert a picture into Excel at a specified cell position with VBA but most of those given me an error too (run-time error 424, object required - the debugger always highlights the line with the file path).
