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Default How to get to email from Word

You might find the recent discussion at http://www.outlookcode.com/threads.a...essageid=26382 useful, as it was on a similar subject.

I don't know if it is a clue, but if I enter
.GetInspector
and then a period vba prompts with the options - including
.WordEditor
If I add a period to the end of that, there isn't the usual prompt offering
.Range etc (though it doesn't baulk at its addition).


Declare a Word.Document object and instantiate it:

Dim objDoc as Word.Document
Dim objDoc = MyMessage.GetInspector.WordEditor

You'll then get intellisense for objDoc.



--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message ...
The only thing I do in Outlook is extract a line of code from a daily e-mail
and paste it into a Word table, using a variation of the code we discussed
on an earlier occasion.

I don't appear to be able to do anything in code with the object.

I don't get an OMG (?) prompt or any other prompt or error message. The
Outlook message window opens the addressee and subject are filled and (if
nothing is entered in the ".Body =" line) the default theme is used. The
cursor is in the body area and nothing is pasted. Pressing CTRL V or
clicking the Paste button pastes the formatted text.

I don't know if it is a clue, but if I enter
.GetInspector
and then a period vba prompts with the options - including
.WordEditor
If I add a period to the end of that, there isn't the usual prompt offering
.Range etc (though it doesn't baulk at its addition).

It doesn't make any difference whether or not Outlook is running.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Tony Jollans wrote:
Graham,

I know you do other things in Outlook - do you have active event
procedures that might interfere at all? Is it just the paste that
fails - can you do anything with the Document (WordEditor) object, or
its Range object? I'm not sure what else to ask - do you get the OMG
prompt (triggered by the GetInspector)? Does it make a difference if
Outlook is already running?

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Hmmm! That's essentially what Tony suggested, but it doesn't work
for me with either Word 2003 or 2007. Nothing is pasted into the
text space, unless you actually click the paste button or CTRL+V

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Jen wrote:
I use 2007 Outlook and Word 2003 and Word 2007
I did play with Options Mail Format to HTML and Rich Text.


Sub Send_Extract_As_MailKeepFmt()
' send the document in an Outlook Email message - HTML Rich Text
Format maintained (Brilliant)
' 20April2008
' 2007 Graham Mayor Tony Jollans Doug Robbins

Dim bStarted As Boolean
Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application
Dim oItem As Outlook.MailItem

On Error Resume Next

'Get Outlook if it's running
Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")

'Outlook wasn't running, start it from code
If Err 0 Then
Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
bStarted = True
End If

'Create a new mailitem
Set oItem = oOutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With oItem

.to = "
.Subject = InputBox("Subject?")
Selection.Copy
.GetInspector.WordEditor.Range.Paste
' .Body = Selection
.Display
End With


'Clean up
Set oItem = Nothing
Set oOutlookApp = Nothing
End Sub


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
That'll teach me to not to be so fast in pressing the send button
There appears to be something I am missing?
The modifications do not paste the text into the message here?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Graham Mayor wrote:
Brilliant - thanks


Tony Jollans wrote:
There ought to be a way to use HTMLBody but it isn't entirely
straightforward.

What you can do is address the Word editor in Outlook 2007 and
paste the selection in. The downside to this is that the OMG
gives you a popup but that probably isn't a big issue in a
personal environment. Instead of:

.Body = Selection

Try:

Selection.Copy
.GetInspector.WordEditor.Range.Paste


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
I had already tried that

The formatting is lost between Word and Outlook and there
doesn't seem to be a way to actually paste into the text area
of the Outlook message window using the macro that I have found
... yet --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
Try

.Body = Selection.FormattedText


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
I can't think of a way to pass the formatting between the
applications using this macro construction. Until someone
comes up with something better, change the line.

.Body = Selection
to
.Body = ""

and paste your formatted selection into the text area.

To cast the net wider I have cross-posted to the programming
and Outlook forums

Sub Send_Extract_As_Mail()
' send the document in an Outlook Email message
Dim bStarted As Boolean
Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application
Dim oItem As Outlook.MailItem

On Error Resume Next

'Get Outlook if it's running
Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")

'Outlook wasn't running, start it from code
If Err 0 Then
Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
bStarted = True
End If

'Create a new mailitem
Set oItem = oOutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With oItem
.to = "
.Subject = InputBox("Subject?")
.Body = Selection
.Display
End With
'Clean up
Set oItem = Nothing
Set oOutlookApp = Nothing
End Sub


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




George Lutz wrote:
Terry:

Thanks, but that had no effect on the result.

George Lutz

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

In Outlook, go to Tools, Options, select the Mail Format tab
and then click on Editor Options at the bottom.

Select the Advanced tab and then under Cut, Copy Paste
section, make sure that the Keep Source formatting option is
selected. that should then paste and keep your formatting
without need to modify the macro. Terry

"George Lutz" wrote
in message
...
Terry -- thanks, I found it.

Graham: Can your macro be modifed so that the text that is
pasted into the email body preserves the formatting it had
in Word? When I run your macro,
bolded text becomes unbolded and tabs disappear.

Thanks.

George Lutz

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

Right-click anywhere on the QAT and select Customize. In
the customize dialog, select All Commands and scroll down
to Microsoft Outlook.

But I am assuming that you have the whole Office 2007 suit
and not just Word
2007 mixed with Outlook 2003. That combination won't work
as Word 2007 needs
Outlook 2007 for compatibility.

Hope this sorts it for you.

Terry

"George Lutz" wrote
in message
...
Graham's macro works very nicely -- thank you, Graham.

Terry: I would like to try your suggestion, but Outlook
does not seem to
be
a Command available to me in Word Options | Customize |
All Commands. Where
can I find the Command to which you are referring?

Thanks.

George Lutz

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

George

You can add the Outlook command button to the QAT, just
like you can add
the
Send to Mail Recipient tool to the QAT.

Terry Farrell

"George Lutz"
wrote in message
...
But I don't want to send the entire Word document --
just the portion
of
it
that is my email. I take notes as I go through the
day, and occasionally
compose an email that I then want to send. The email
is just a small
portion
of the day's notes. So, I compose the email, then cut
and paste its text
into Outlook. The button I used in Word 2003 called up
Outlook, opened
a
blank email, and allowed me to paste in the text I had
prepared in Word.
I
also had a button that called up Outlook with an email
already addressed
to
my assistant, who is the recipient of about half of the
20 or so emails
I
send each day -- very convenient. Amazing that such a
useful feature
would
be eliminated in an "updated" version of Word!

I appreciate your replies. however.

George Lutz

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

It was never necessary to copy and paste into a blank
email in Outlook.
All
you ever needed to do from Word was to click on the
Send to Mail Recipient
tool (in either Word 2002, Word 2003 or Word 2007).

When you click on that tool, it adds the standard
email address bar to
the
top of the windows which looks and feels identical to
the blank email
in
Outlook.

In Word 2007, you need to add this command button Send
Mail to Recipient
to
the QAT because Microsoft inexplicably left it off the
Send Menu.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"George Lutz" George
wrote in message
...
I just chagned from Word 2003 to Word 2007. In Word
2003, I had an
icon
in
the toolbar that allowed me to call upOutlook. I.e., I
wouudl compose
and
email in word, then select and copy it, then click on
this icno, and
an
email
opened up ready for me to paste in the text. I am
pretty sure I used
the
Customixe feature in 2002 to do this.

How can I get such an icon in 2007 to land in my
Quick Access Toolbar?

Thanks.

George Lutz