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Sending Email macros, I am trying to create a macro to send an email to a specifc mailbox
Camulus
post 6 Oct, 2008 - 11:12 PM
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Please could some one advise.

I have the following code to try and send a page via email to one of my colleagues. It is a repetative task whick is why i have tried to assign the macro to a button in my spread sheet.

I keep getting syntax error everytime i try to execute the macro.


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'Declarations
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long Private Const SW_SHOW = 5
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ShellExecute hwnd, "open", "mailto:email address", vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOW

Rgrds and thanks

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post 6 Oct, 2008 - 11:35 PM
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'Declarations
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long Private Const SW_SHOW = 5
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ShellExecute hwnd, "open", "mailto:email address", vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOW

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Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Private Const SW_SHOW = 5

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ShellExecute hwnd, "open", "mailto:email address", vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOW
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Thanks for your help but i'm not sure whether it is because i am a total beginner or because i have an old version of VB but i still keep getting error messages come up when i try to run the macro.

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post 7 Oct, 2008 - 01:19 AM
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The above code works in vb6. But i dont know whether it will run in vbscript.
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did you try the shell command
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I keep getting syntax error everytime i try to execute the macro.
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