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NYCAnalyst
04-21-2009, 06:52 AM
Hi,

I use Excel / Outlook 2007. Does anyone know how to copy an excel range and paste it into the body of an outlook e-mail as a bitmap? I know how to paste it in HTML, you can see that below.

(The below example takes the range "A1:F20" from Sheet1 and pastes it into the body an an Outlook Email as a bitmap)

Sub Send_Mail()
' Don't forget to copy the function RangetoHTML in the module.
' Working in Office 2000-2007
ActiveSheet.Outline.ShowLevels RowLevels:=0, ColumnLevels:=1
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 range if you want
Set rng = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:F20").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")
OutApp.Session.Logon
Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
On Error Resume Next
With OutMail
.To = test@test.com
.BCC = ""
.Subject = "Report" & Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B6").Value
.HTMLBody = "Hello World" & RangetoHTML(rng)
.Attachments.Add ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\" & ActiveWorkbook.Name
'.Send 'or use .Display
.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 2000-2007
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

Oorang
04-21-2009, 11:08 AM
There are better ways, but as a quick and dirty solution you could use:
Selection.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Format:=xlBitmap

georgiboy
04-21-2009, 01:26 PM
Is this the sort of thing you are after...

NYCAnalyst
04-21-2009, 01:30 PM
That is what I already have....I'm looking to be able to paste the range in an e-mail as a bitmap image (not HTML). Thanks, much appreciated.

Oorang
04-22-2009, 06:16 AM
Were you able to accomplish that with the method I suggested?

NYCAnalyst
05-05-2009, 08:06 AM
Were you able to accomplish that with the method I suggested?

Sorry, I wasn't able to do so. It works in Excel, but I'm not sure how I can paste it into an Outlook email?