Insert link into email body using VBA

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I can't find this solutions anywhere. I know how to send emails from Excel using VBA. When I get to the Body section, I want to insert a clickable link to a website, and also a clickable link to send an email (not as important as the website). Can this be done? I have found code to insert links to files, but none for website links.
 

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You'd have to use .HTMLBody rather than .Body. Something like this would insert a link to Google with the words "click here" as the clicky:-
Code: 
    .HTMLBody = "< a href=""ht tp://www.google.com/"">click here< /a>< br>"
I've inserted spaces after the < characters and in the middle of http to stop the forum software throwing a wobbly but you need to remove them when you use the code.
 
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For an email links, something like this:-
Code: 
.HTMLBody = "Email: < a href='mailto:Mike Chambers < mike(at)chambers.com>?Subject=Request for info&Body=Please send me some info.%0A%0AThank you.>Mike< /a>< br>"
That includes a subject line and a bit of text in the body of the new email. You might find this useful: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html.

As before, remove the spaces after the < characters and replace (at) with the @ character.
 
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Oops - correction:-
Code: 
.HTMLBody = "Email: < a href='mailto:Mike Chambers < mike(at)chambers.com>?Subject=Request for info&Body=Please send me some info.%0A%0AThank you.[SIZE=3][COLOR=red][B]'[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]>Mike< /a>< br>"
 
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Ruddles said:
You'd have to use .HTMLBody rather than .Body. Something like this would insert a link to Google with the words "click here" as the clicky:-
Code: 
    .HTMLBody = "< a href=""ht tp://www.google.com/"">click here< /a>< br>"
I've inserted spaces after the < characters and in the middle of http to stop the forum software throwing a wobbly but you need to remove them when you use the code.
Click to expand...

I can't <i>believe</i> how long and hard I had to look to finally find the key: ".HTMLBody".

You rock.
 
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Ruddles said:
Oops - correction:-
Code: 
.HTMLBody = "Email: < a href='mailto:Mike Chambers < mike(at)chambers.com>?Subject=Request for info&Body=Please send me some info.%0A%0AThank you.[SIZE=3][COLOR=red][B]'[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]>Mike< /a>< br>"
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Can I add two links in the vba? How can I do so? I have below code. .BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
.HTMLBody = str_MsgBody & vbNewLine & "<html><b><font face=Calibri><font size=5><a href='http://qlikr/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=Risk%20Dashboards/VaR_Sign_Off.qvw&host=QVS@qvapp01'>Flash VaR Sign-Off</a>"
.Importance = olImportanceHigh
.Display I want to add one more URL here. Can I do so?
 
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You can put as many anchors in your HTML as you want- just build the string HTMLBody with the HTML for the anchors in the required place. Here's an example:-

Code: 
.HTMLBody = "You can < a href=""ht tp://www.google.com/"">click here< /a>< br>" _
& "or you can < a href=""ht tp://www.google.com/"">click here instead< /a> - < br>" _

& "whichever you prefer.< br>< br>" _ 
& "Email me: < a href='mailto:Ruddles <<me(at)ruddles.com&g;?Subject=Please send me some info'>clicky</a>< br>"
 
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