Converting Ron De Bruin e-mail from HTML to plain text

[themightyreds]

Title almost says it all. I can't write VB but I can copy and paste it where I need to stick it so I have copied http://www.rondebruin.nl/mail/folder3/mail4.htm - M"ail Range or Selection in the body of the mail" into a workbook and have been using it fine.

The problem is that the e-mail is being turned into a telex after it has been sent and comes out over 6 pages on the recipients telex machine (it is only 25 rows I am copying over). Is there a way of converting it into plain text before dumping it into an e-mail to hopefully resolve my problem.

 

[themightyreds]

bump

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi

For a few lines see
http://www.rondebruin.nl/mail/folder3/smallmessage.htm

See the examples on the Tips page
http://www.rondebruin.nl/mail/tips2.htm

Ron

 

[themightyreds]

Sorry Ron I have tried, really I have but I can't work it out. I need the following to be a plain text e-mail rather than HTML.

As a non VB user I have managed to follow your excellent pages to create what I initally needed (with some extra help form others on here if truth be told) but I am at a loss here.

Sub Mail_Selection_Range_Outlook_Body()
' Don't forget to copy the function RangetoHTML in the module.
' Working in Office 2000-2007
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 = Sheets("OK Mail").Range("B4:H29").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
'You can also use a range if you want
'Set rng = Sheets("YourSheet").Range("D4:D12").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
On Error GoTo 0

If rng Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Something has gone badly wrong " & _
vbNewLine & "get Matt to look at it!.", 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 = Sheets("OK Mail").Range("W1")
.CC = Sheets("OK Mail").Range("W6")
.BCC = ""
.Subject = Sheets("OK mail").Range("W2")
.Body = StrBody & RangetoHTML(rng)
.DISPLAY 'or use .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 xublishsource=", _
"align=left xublishsource=")

'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

 

[Ron de Bruin]

You can add this to the code

.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain

Ron de Bruin

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Better to use this

.BodyFormat = 1

Else you must set a reference to Outlook in the VBA

 

[themightyreds]

Better to use this

.BodyFormat = 1

Else you must set a reference to Outlook in the VBA

I'm a complete novice Ron, where on earth do I put that?

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Try this as a example

Sub Mail_small_Text_Outlook()
'Working in Office 2000-2007
Dim OutApp As Object
Dim OutMail As Object
Dim strbody As String

Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
OutApp.Session.Logon
Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)

strbody = "Hi there" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & _
"This is line 1" & vbNewLine & _
"This is line 2" & vbNewLine & _
"This is line 3" & vbNewLine & _
"This is line 4"

On Error Resume Next
With OutMail
.To = "ron@debruin.nl"
.CC = ""
.BCC = ""
.BodyFormat = 1
.Subject = "This is the Subject line"
.Body = strbody
'You can add a file like this
'.Attachments.Add ("C:\test.txt")
.Display 'or use .Display
End With
On Error GoTo 0

Set OutMail = Nothing
Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub