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Send HTML Email via CDO

Send HTML Email via CDO

Ever wonder how to send email that looks like a web page? Here is how you do it. Note: You must have CDO for NT referenced for this to work.

'Sends an email to the appropriate person(s).''From = Email address being sent from'SendTo = List of email addresses separated by a semicolon.  Example:'       [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]'Subject = Text that summarizes what the email is about'HTMLText = Body of text that is the email'AttachmentPath = Directory in which the attachment resides'Attachment = File to send with the emailSub SendEmailHTML(From As String, SendTo As String, Subject As String, _    HTMLText As String, Optional AttachmentPath As String, _    Optional Attachment As String, Optional CC As String)    Const constRoutine As String = "SendEmailHTML"    Dim strSendTo As String    Dim objSendMail As CDONTS.NewMail    Dim i As Integer    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler    'Do not cause the user a major error, just log the error and keep going        If SendTo = "" Then Exit Sub    Set objSendMail = New CDONTS.NewMail    With objSendMail        On Error Resume Next        .From = From        If CC <> "" Then            .CC = CC        End If        On Error GoTo ErrorHandler        .To = SendTo        .Subject = Subject        .Body = HTMLText        .MailFormat = CdoMailFormats.CdoMailFormatMime        .BodyFormat = CdoBodyFormats.CdoBodyFormatHTML            AttachmentPath = Trim$(AttachmentPath)        If AttachmentPath <> "" Then            If Right$(AttachmentPath, 1) <> "" Then                AttachmentPath = AttachmentPath & ""            End If            .AttachFile (AttachmentPath & Attachment)        End If        .Send    End With    ExitMe:    Set objSendMail = Nothing    Exit SubErrorHandler:    'Send error back    Err.Raise Err.Number, Err.Source, Err.DescriptionEnd Sub


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