Converting a rich text email body to an html format in Outlook VBA
I have written a VBA routine in Outlook VBA that generates the rich text format body of an email, that is ultimately successfully sent as a mail item. Contained in the body of that email is a link to another html form that I have developed.
That html form I am referencing via link within my email body has a number of parameters built int it. At the end of the day, the URL is quite long and an eyesore to the user receiving the email.
My ultimate objective would be change the display name of the link in the body of my rich text email to something other than just the URL... but to the best of my knowledge, this is not possible in rich text.
Is there a way to programmatically change the email body from rich text to html, then send the email as "olformatHTML". Once I've gotten it into an html format, I can do some simple find and replace work to associate the display name with the link. I just don't want to have to build a routine to generate html.
Again, my canvas is Outlook VBA.
Kind regards,
Dan
That html form I am referencing via link within my email body has a number of parameters built int it. At the end of the day, the URL is quite long and an eyesore to the user receiving the email.
My ultimate objective would be change the display name of the link in the body of my rich text email to something other than just the URL... but to the best of my knowledge, this is not possible in rich text.
Is there a way to programmatically change the email body from rich text to html, then send the email as "olformatHTML". Once I've gotten it into an html format, I can do some simple find and replace work to associate the display name with the link. I just don't want to have to build a routine to generate html.
Again, my canvas is Outlook VBA.
Kind regards,
Dan
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I'm not very up on HTML conversions but there are routines out there that do it, can't recall one off hand but if the text is converted to HTML and stuffed into the HTMLbody then a simple substitution should do it.
Chris
Chris
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Thanks... all my reading on the internet lead me to believe that this would NOT perform an actual conversion of format, but in fact it does. Now that I've got this into an html format, I will need to address the issue of putting a display name on my link. Aside from a brute force find and replace of the html body, is there a collection I can work with to edit the link in my email body?
Dan