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Word 2010/VBA: How to email Word doc as attachment and insert body text?

How do I use VBA or a Macro to send a new Outlook email from a Word doc that will attach the Word doc as an attachment and then include text in the body of the email?

Word 2010
Outlook 2010

Note: the body of the email will be a standard text like "Please see attached file."

Thank you

Chris Bottomley

Easy enough and should be fairly self explanatory:

Sub sendeMail()
Dim olkApp As Object
Dim strSubject As String
Dim strTo As String
Dim strBody As String
Dim strAtt As String

    strSubject = "Whatever!"
    strBody = "Please see attached File"
    strTo = "fred@fred.com"
    If ActiveDocument.FullName = "" Then
        MsgBox "activedocument not saved, exiting"
        Exit Sub
    Else
        If MsgBox("Activedocument NOT saved, Proceed?", vbYesNo, "Error") <> vbYes Then Exit Sub
    End If
    strAtt = ActiveDocument.FullName
    
    Set olkApp = CreateObject("outlook.application")
    With olkApp.createitem(0)
        .to = strTo
        .Subject = strSubject
        .body = strBody
        .attachments.Add strAtt
        '.send
        .Display
    End With
    Set olkApp = Nothing
End Sub

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swap the comment prefix ... ' ... from the display line to the display line to make it send automatically.

Chris

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CafeTica

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Yes, easy to follow. Thanks