Formatting CDO email messages

[Ed Richter]

Was wondering is there any easy ways to format a CDO mail message? For instance, I'd like the responses shown in bold as the line below attempts to do:

MailBody = sMailBody & "First name was: " & " <B> " & old_F_name & " </B> First name now is: " & " " & new_F_name & " <B> " & " </B>" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine

But the <B> html delimiters instead just appear as literal code? Kind of thought that might happen.

Is there a way to put responses into a table in the message? Just trying to come up with a way to make responses stand out.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

See:

http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/980429.htm

or in the IE address bar type:

? Sending HTML email via CDO

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Was wondering is there any easy ways to format a CDO mail message? For
instance, I'd like the responses shown in bold as the line below attempts to
do:

MailBody = sMailBody & "First name was: " & " <B> " & old_F_name & " </B>
First name now is: " & " " & new_F_name & " <B> " & " </B>" & vbNewLine &
vbNewLine

But the <B> html delimiters instead just appear as literal code? Kind of
thought that might happen.

Is there a way to put responses into a table in the message? Just trying to
come up with a way to make responses stand out.

 

[Jim Buyens]

You need to tell the CDO object that the body section
consists of HTML. For CDONTS.NewMail, this requires:

Set myMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
myMail.BodyFormat = 0 ' Means CdoBodyFormatHTML
myMail.MailFormat = 0 ' Means CdoMailFormatMime

For CDO.Message, you save the HTML in the HTMLBody
property rather than the TextBody property.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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