Thanks a bunch to all 3 of you for your help!

JP--your code works great and does exactly what I need. To answer
your question, the code saves a ton of time versus going through
Outlook interface, making sure I've saved the file I'm working on,
having to close the file down to zip it, and then finding the zip file
and attaching it. I do this 20 to 30 times a day, so it can literally
save me multiple hours in a week.

Mark, thanks for the reference. I'm sure it will come in useful if I
take this further. Steve, thanks for your insights; again, I'm sure
they'll be handy if this macro doesn't solve all my problems.


On Apr 15, 8:26*pm, JP wrote:
Why do you need code to attach a file if the email isopenand
presumably displayed on your desktop?

Something like this might work. After setting a reference to the
active Inspector, the .Add method of the Attachments Collection
returns an object reference to the newly added attachment.

Dim olcurrentmail AsOutlook.MailItem
Dim olattachments AsOutlook.Attachments
Dim newattach AsOutlook.Attachment

Set olcurrentmail = ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
Set olattachments = olcurrentmail.Attachments

Set newattach = olattachments.Add("C:\filename.xls")

HTH,
JP

On Apr 15, 4:59*pm, Nathan Berton wrote:



Hi,

I'm trying to use Excel to add an attachment to anOutlookemail
that'salreadybeen opened inOutlook. *I have code that creates a new
email and adds the attachment, but I want to be able to preserve the
email chain in a reply or add the file after I'vealreadywritten the
body of the email.

Any help is appreciated! *Thanks! *Here's the code I mentioned that I
alreadyhave:

Sub test()
* * Dim filename As String
* * Dim result As Long
* * Dim OutMail As Object
* * Dim OutApp As Object

* * Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
* * OutApp.Session.Logon
* * Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0) * * * * * * ' this is the line
I expect needs to be changed.

* * With OutMail
* * * * .To = ""
* * * * .CC = ""
* * * * .BCC = ""
* * * * .Subject = "Emailing: " & ActiveWorkbook.Name
* * * * .Body = ""
* * * * .Attachments.Add Environ("temp") & "\zip\" &
Mid(ActiveWorkbook.Name, 1, Len(ActiveWorkbook.Name) - 4) & ".zip"
* * * * .Display
* * End With
* * Set OutMail = Nothing
* * Set OutApp = Nothing
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