Thread: Send Plain Text Email in Outlook

Hi All,

Hoping someone can offer some assistance. Basic situation: I have an excel 2007 spreadsheet that myself and my team complete to lodge new files. Once finished they press a button and the macro kicks in and it generates one email in Outlook 2007 (in HTML form - cuts and pastes a table) to a particular group. I am trying to edit this spreadsheet so that a second email is generated to go to an Email to SMS service. I have been able to get it so the email comes up with the right information in the 'to' field and the right information in the body etc, but I can't seem to get it to send as a plain text, which it needs to or the SMS arrives as gibberish.

To clarify, I'm not a VBA expert and have largely created the macro using on code I've found online. I've spent two days googling and trying different options such as .TextBody, .BodyFormat, .olFormatPlain etc etc. None seem to work and I think its because of the code that I'm using to generate the email. I think I need to find the right combination but am struggling. The code I am using is:

Sub Save_and_Email()

    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
    Sheets("Email").Select
    Cells(34, 2).Value = ""
    Cells(34, 2).Value = Environ("Username")
    'Columns("B:B").EntireColumn.AutoFit
    Sheets("Form").Select
    
    Set Rng = Sheets("Email").Range("A1:K24").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 = "abc@abc.net.au; abc@abc.net.au; abc@abc.net.au"
        .CC = Sheets("Email").Range("B32").Value
        .BCC = ""
        .Subject = Sheets("Email").Range("B33").Value
        .HTMLBody = RangetoHTML(Rng)
        .Display   'or use .Send
    End With
    On Error GoTo 0
        
    '2nd email
    
    With Application
        .EnableEvents = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
    End With

    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
    Dim strbody As String
    Dim cell As Range
    
    strbody = Sheets("SMS").Range("A1").Value

    With OutMail
        .To = Sheets("SMS").Range("B9").Value & "@esendex.net"
        .CC = ""
        .BCC = ""
        .Subject = ""
        .Body = strbody
        .Display
        End With
        Set OutMail = Nothing
        Set OutApp = Nothing
      

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

    Set OutMail = Nothing
    Set OutApp = Nothing
   
End Sub

    


Function RangetoHTML(Rng As Range)
' Working in Office 2000-2010
    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

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Trav