Question

Need to create a macro to forward and copy in outlook 2003

Asked by: troyswildride

I perform the same step very often for an administrative task in outlook and would like to streamline with a macro if possible.

I use Outlook 2003 and 2007.

To be able to track email conversations in a ticketing system we have, I need to do the following.
1. Forward an email containing info required
2. Copy all text in forwarded email
3. Close email without sending

Result should be that I have something like the following in the clipboard.

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From: First Last
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:39 AM
To: Other Person
Subject: Event Subject

Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text
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Thanks!
Troy


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by: NeilsrPosted on 2009-08-07 at 14:07:07ID: 25046970

Copy the attached code snippet into a .BAS Module in Outlooks VBAProject.OTM . The code is simple and has just one Public Sub you need to call,  Copy_Email_Contents.
Eisiest to add this as a toolbar button so you can just click on the email you want to process and then click on the toolbar button.

Any questions ask away.

Neil.


'*********  Code Start  ************
' This code was originally written by Terry Kreft.
' It is not to be altered or distributed,
' except as part of an application.
' You are free to use it in any application,
' provided the copyright notice is left unchanged.
'
' Code Courtesy of
' Terry Kreft
'
Public Const GHND = &H42
Public Const CF_TEXT = 1
Private Const CF_ANSIONLY = &H400&
Private Const CF_APPLY = &H200&
Private Const CF_BITMAP = 2
Private Const CF_DIB = 8
Private Const CF_DIF = 5
Private Const CF_DSPBITMAP = &H82
Private Const CF_DSPENHMETAFILE = &H8E
Private Const CF_DSPMETAFILEPICT = &H83
Private Const CF_DSPTEXT = &H81
Private Const CF_EFFECTS = &H100&
Private Const CF_ENABLEHOOK = &H8&
Private Const CF_ENABLETEMPLATE = &H10&
Private Const CF_ENABLETEMPLATEHANDLE = &H20&
Private Const CF_ENHMETAFILE = 14
Private Const CF_FIXEDPITCHONLY = &H4000&
Private Const CF_FORCEFONTEXIST = &H10000
Private Const CF_GDIOBJFIRST = &H300
Private Const CF_GDIOBJLAST = &H3FF
Private Const CF_HDROP = 15
Private Const CF_INITTOLOGFONTSTRUCT = &H40&
Private Const CF_LIMITSIZE = &H2000&
Private Const CF_LOCALE = 16
Private Const CF_MAX = 17
Private Const CF_METAFILEPICT = 3
Private Const CF_NOFACESEL = &H80000
Private Const CF_NOSCRIPTSEL = &H800000
Private Const CF_NOSIMULATIONS = &H1000&
Private Const CF_NOSIZESEL = &H200000
Private Const CF_NOSTYLESEL = &H100000
Private Const CF_NOVECTORFONTS = &H800&
Private Const CF_NOOEMFONTS = CF_NOVECTORFONTS
Private Const CF_NOVERTFONTS = &H1000000
Private Const CF_OEMTEXT = 7
Private Const CF_OWNERDISPLAY = &H80
Private Const CF_PALETTE = 9
Private Const CF_PENDATA = 10
Private Const CF_PRINTERFONTS = &H2
Private Const CF_PRIVATEFIRST = &H200
Private Const CF_PRIVATELAST = &H2FF
Private Const CF_RIFF = 11
Private Const CF_SCALABLEONLY = &H20000
Private Const CF_SCREENFONTS = &H1
Private Const CF_BOTH = (CF_SCREENFONTS Or CF_PRINTERFONTS)
Private Const CF_SCRIPTSONLY = CF_ANSIONLY
Private Const CF_SELECTSCRIPT = &H400000
Private Const CF_SHOWHELP = &H4&
Private Const CF_SYLK = 4
Private Const CF_TIFF = 6
Private Const CF_TTONLY = &H40000
Private Const CF_UNICODETEXT = 13
Private Const CF_USESTYLE = &H80&
Private Const CF_WAVE = 12
Private Const CF_WYSIWYG = &H8000
 
Private Declare Function GlobalAlloc Lib "kernel32" (ByVal wFlags&, ByVal _
  dwBytes As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GlobalLock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) _
  As Long
Private Declare Function GlobalSize Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) _
  As Long
Private Declare Function lstrcpy Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpString1 As Any, _
  ByVal lpString2 As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function lstrlen Lib "kernel32" Alias "lstrlenA" _
  (ByVal lpString As String) As Long
 
Private Declare Function GlobalUnlock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) _
  As Long
 
Private Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "user32" (ByVal Hwnd As Long) _
  As Long
Private Declare Function CloseClipboard Lib "user32" () As Long
Private Declare Function GetClipboardData Lib "user32" (ByVal wFormat As _
  Long) As Long
Private Declare Function EmptyClipboard Lib "user32" () As Long
Private Declare Function SetClipboardData Lib "user32" (ByVal wFormat _
  As Long, ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
 
 
'============================================ Call this Via a button on your toolbar ========================
 
 
Public Sub Copy_Email_Contents()
    Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
    Dim myExplorers As Explorers
    Dim eItem As MailItem
    Set myExplorers = myOlApp.Explorers
    Set eItem = myExplorers(1).Selection.Item(1).Forward
    ClipBoard_SetText (eItem.Body)
    Set myOlApp = Nothing
    Set myExplorers = Nothing
    Set eItem = Nothing
End Sub
 
 
 
Function ClipBoard_SetText(strCopyString As String) As Boolean
  Dim hGlobalMemory As Long
  Dim lpGlobalMemory As Long
  Dim hClipMemory As Long
 
  ' Allocate moveable global memory.
  '-------------------------------------------
  hGlobalMemory = GlobalAlloc(GHND, Len(strCopyString) + 1)
 
  ' Lock the block to get a far pointer
  ' to this memory.
  lpGlobalMemory = GlobalLock(hGlobalMemory)
 
  ' Copy the string to this global memory.
  lpGlobalMemory = lstrcpy(lpGlobalMemory, strCopyString)
 
  ' Unlock the memory and then copy to the clipboard
  If GlobalUnlock(hGlobalMemory) = 0 Then
    If OpenClipboard(0&) <> 0 Then
      Call EmptyClipboard
      hClipMemory = SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hGlobalMemory)
      ClipBoard_SetText = CBool(CloseClipboard)
    End If
  End If
End Function
 
Function ClipBoard_GetText() As String
  Dim hClipMemory As Long
  Dim lpClipMemory As Long
  Dim strCBText As String
  Dim RetVal As Long
  Dim lngSize As Long
  If OpenClipboard(0&) <> 0 Then
    ' Obtain the handle to the global memory
    ' block that is referencing the text.
    hClipMemory = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT)
    If hClipMemory <> 0 Then
      ' Lock Clipboard memory so we can reference
      ' the actual data string.
      lpClipMemory = GlobalLock(hClipMemory)
      If lpClipMemory <> 0 Then
        lngSize = GlobalSize(lpClipMemory)
        strCBText = Space$(lngSize)
        RetVal = lstrcpy(strCBText, lpClipMemory)
        RetVal = GlobalUnlock(hClipMemory)
        ' Peel off the null terminating character.
        strCBText = Left(strCBText, InStr(1, strCBText, Chr$(0), 0) - 1)
      Else
        MsgBox "Could not lock memory to copy string from."
      End If
    End If
    Call CloseClipboard
  End If
  ClipBoard_GetText = strCBText
End Function
 
Function CopyOlePiccy(Piccy As Object)
  Dim hGlobalMemory As Long, lpGlobalMemory As Long
  Dim hClipMemory As Long, X As Long
 
  ' Allocate moveable global memory.
  '-------------------------------------------
  hGlobalMemory = GlobalAlloc(GHND, Len(Piccy) + 1)
 
  ' Lock the block to get a far pointer
  ' to this memory.
  lpGlobalMemory = GlobalLock(hGlobalMemory)
 
 
  'Need to copy the object to the memory here
 
  lpGlobalMemory = lstrcpy(lpGlobalMemory, Piccy)
 
  ' Unlock the memory.
  If GlobalUnlock(hGlobalMemory) <> 0 Then
    MsgBox "Could not unlock memory location. Copy aborted."
    GoTo OutOfHere2
  End If
 
  ' Open the Clipboard to copy data to.
  If OpenClipboard(0&) = 0 Then
    MsgBox "Could not open the Clipboard. Copy aborted."
    Exit Function
  End If
 
  ' Clear the Clipboard.
  X = EmptyClipboard()
 
  ' Copy the data to the Clipboard.
  hClipMemory = SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hGlobalMemory)
 
OutOfHere2:
  If CloseClipboard() = 0 Then
    MsgBox "Could not close Clipboard."
  End If
End Function
'*********  Code End   ************
                                              
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by: troyswildridePosted on 2009-08-10 at 16:24:33ID: 25065009

This is great.
A nice compliment to this is if there is a script that would allow to copy with formatting.

In case there are tables or links that need to be maintained.

Cheers.
Troy

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