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kitty77

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I'm using the following code to send an email. Works great. How can I make [Mtrack] be a clickable link in the email? And when you click the link
it would follow: Application.FollowHyperlink "http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?track=yes&trackNums=" & [Mtrack]

Thanks!

Dim appOutLook As Outlook.Application
Dim MailOutLook As Outlook.MailItem
Set appOutLook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set MailOutLook = appOutLook.CreateItem(olMailItem)

With MailOutLook
.To = [email1]
'.CC = [email2]
'.BCC = ""
'.Attachments.Add
.Subject = "Shipping Confirmation!"
.Body = "A package is coming your way." & Chr(10) & Chr(10) & _
"Tracking No: " & [Mtrack] & Chr(10) & _
"Date Sent: " & [Mdatesent] & Chr(10) & Chr(10) & _
'.Send
.Display
End With
 

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An email is HTML, so you need to have your code produce an HTML link in the body of the message. The basic coding of an HTML link is as such:

<a href="URL">DISPLAYTEXT</a>

Replace URL with the link to go to when clicked.
Replace DISPLAYTEXT with what you want the link to say.
 

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To use HTML in an email, you'll also have to use:

.HTMLBody

instead of:

.Body
 

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Yes that looks good. Be sure to escape your double quotes when building your string in VBA. Or switch to single quotes.
 

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what I like to do in these situations is create a perfectly formatted email draft precisely the way I want it to look in the email. After that I right click in the email and choose view source. in the resulting text file I edit the variables with the name something like placeholder_variable. Then I store that text in a database table column. then at run time as DB guy mentioned I use HTML body and then I use the replace function to replace placeholders in the HTML text with the real thing .. after that you have a perfectly formatted email with as fancy HTML as you might want, done totally the easy way .. without knowing any HTML
 

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Change the double quotes around the URL to single quotes.
 

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Code:
Dim TrackingNo As String
TrackingNo = "<a href=""http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?track=yes&trackNums=" & [MTrack] & """>" & [MTrack] & "</a>"

Dim appOutLook As Outlook.Application
Dim MailOutLook As Outlook.MailItem
Set appOutLook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set MailOutLook = appOutLook.CreateItem(olMailItem)

With MailOutLook
.To = [email1]
'.CC = [email2]
'.BCC = ""
'.Attachments.Add
.Subject = "Shipping Confirmation!"
.HTMLBody = "A package is coming your way.<br>" & _
"Tracking No: " & TrackingNo & "<br>" & _
"Date Sent: " & [Mdatesent]
'.Send
.Display
End With
 

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Just sayin, my way is a lot easier than learning html :)
 

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Code:
Dim TrackingNo As String
TrackingNo = "<a href=""http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?track=yes&trackNums=" & [MTrack] & """>" & [MTrack] & "</a>"

Dim appOutLook As Outlook.Application
Dim MailOutLook As Outlook.MailItem
Set appOutLook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set MailOutLook = appOutLook.CreateItem(olMailItem)

With MailOutLook
.To = [email1]
'.CC = [email2]
'.BCC = ""
'.Attachments.Add
.Subject = "Shipping Confirmation!"
.HTMLBody = "A package is coming your way.<br>" & _
"Tracking No: " & TrackingNo & "<br>" & _
"Date Sent: " & [Mdatesent]
'.Send
.Display
End With
How can I add a space or two since I switched to .htmlbody? What is the format for adding spaces?

Thanks!
 

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To add a space you just type a space in your string. To add more than 1 space consecutively requires you use an HTML code:

&nbsp; &nbsp;

Paste that into your string and the HTML will have 3 spaces (the 2 codes + the actual space between them)
 

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To add a space you just type a space in your string. To add more than 1 space consecutively requires you use an HTML code:

&nbsp; &nbsp;

Paste that into your string and the HTML will have 3 spaces (the 2 codes + the actual space between them)
So how should it look using my code below? Adding two spaces between "Tracking No" and Tracking No.

"Tracking No:" & TrackingNo & "<br>" & _
 

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"Tracking No: &nbsp;" & TrackingNo & "<br>" & _
 

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