How can I automate emails sent by triggering links within
Excel. I would like to send a standard email to various
recipients when a date condition is met (actually an
updated forecast). Do I need to buy and install VB6 or
would I be able to run a programme in Excel that drives
my Outlook?

Bon

Thank you. Could I run this from Excel vba?

-----Original Message-----
David,

VBA can easily send mail via Outlook. Here is some
example code

Dim objOutlook As Object
Dim objMailItem As Object
Dim objRecipient As Object
Dim objNameSpace As Object

Set objOutlook = CreateObject
("Outlook.Application")
Set objNameSpace = objOutlook.GetNameSpace
("MAPI")
objNameSpace.Logon , , True

Set objMailItem = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
Set objRecipient =
objMailItem.Recipients.Add("bob.phillips@somewher e.com")
objRecipient.Type = 1 '1 = To, use 2 for cc
'keep repeating these
lines with
'your names, adding to the
collection.
objMailItem.Subject = "The extract has finished."
objMailItem.Body = "This is an automatic email
notification"
objMailItem.Attachments.Add
(Filename) 'you only need this if
you are sending attachments?
objMailItem.Send

If you want to include an attachment as shown, it has to
be a file not the
activeworkbook, so if you want to send the
activeworkbbok, save it firat,
and then send it as that file. You can
use 'ActiveWorkbook.FullName' to
access it without using hard-coded values.

You just will nedd to add the code to trigger the
mailing.

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

"David Robinson" wrote in
message
...
How can I automate emails sent by triggering links
within
Excel. I would like to send a standard email to various
recipients when a date condition is met (actually an
updated forecast). Do I need to buy and install VB6 or
would I be able to run a programme in Excel that drives
my Outlook?


.

Does vba refer to the excel visual basic?

-----Original Message-----
David,

VBA can easily send mail via Outlook. Here is some
example code

Dim objOutlook As Object
Dim objMailItem As Object
Dim objRecipient As Object
Dim objNameSpace As Object

Set objOutlook = CreateObject
("Outlook.Application")
Set objNameSpace = objOutlook.GetNameSpace
("MAPI")
objNameSpace.Logon , , True

Set objMailItem = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
Set objRecipient =
objMailItem.Recipients.Add("bob.phillips@somewher e.com")
objRecipient.Type = 1 '1 = To, use 2 for cc
'keep repeating these
lines with
'your names, adding to the
collection.
objMailItem.Subject = "The extract has finished."
objMailItem.Body = "This is an automatic email
notification"
objMailItem.Attachments.Add
(Filename) 'you only need this if
you are sending attachments?
objMailItem.Send

If you want to include an attachment as shown, it has to
be a file not the
activeworkbook, so if you want to send the
activeworkbbok, save it firat,
and then send it as that file. You can
use 'ActiveWorkbook.FullName' to
access it without using hard-coded values.

You just will nedd to add the code to trigger the
mailing.

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

"David Robinson" wrote in
message
...
How can I automate emails sent by triggering links
within
Excel. I would like to send a standard email to various
recipients when a date condition is met (actually an
updated forecast). Do I need to buy and install VB6 or
would I be able to run a programme in Excel that drives
my Outlook?


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