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RangeToHTML & Image in Cell


Im trying to generate an email using Ron de Bruin's RangeToHTML and its working perfectly so far however one of my cells ("B26") contains an image and this wont copy into the email.

I've tried and succeded in adding in the image before or after the range but I need this image to appear in this specific cell. Any Ideas how I can get this to work if its at all possible?

Sub SendEmail()

    Dim OutlookApp As Outlook.Application
    Dim MItem As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim cell As Range
    Dim Subj As String
    Dim EmailAddr As String
    Dim Recipient As String
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim rng2 As Range
    Dim StrBody As String

    Set rng = Sheets("Email Templates").Range("A1:D29")
    'Set rng2 = Sheets("Email Templates").Range("A6:D32").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)

    'Create Outlook object
    Set OutlookApp = New Outlook.Application

    'Operations Contacts
    For Each cell In Sheets("Contacts").Columns("A").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
        If cell.Value Like "*@*" Then
            EmailAddr = EmailAddr & ";" & cell.Value
        End If
    Next

    'Systems Contacts
    For Each cell In Sheets("Contacts").Columns("B").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
        If cell.Value Like "*@*" Then
            EmailAddr = EmailAddr & ";" & cell.Value
        End If
    Next

    Subj = "Systems Notification | System Outage | " & Sheets("Email Templates").Range("C6") & " " & Sheets("Email Templates").Range("C4") & " " & Sheets("Email Templates").Range("C6")

    'Create Mail Item and view before sending
    Set MItem = OutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    With MItem
        .To = EmailAddr
        .Subject = Subj
        .HTMLBody = RangetoHTML(rng)
        .Display
    End With

End Sub



Function RangetoHTML(rng As Range)
' By Ron de Bruin.
    Dim fso As Object
    Dim ts As Object
    Dim TempFile As String
    Dim TempWB As Workbook
    Dim r As Long

    TempFile = Environ$("temp") & "/" & Format(Now, "dd-mm-yy h-mm-ss") & ".htm"

    'Copy the range and create a new workbook to past the data in
    rng.Copy
    Set TempWB = Workbooks.Add(1)
    With TempWB.Sheets(1)
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial Paste:=8
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteValues, , False, False
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats, , False, False
        .Cells(1).PasteSpecial xlPasteAllUsingSourceTheme, , False, False
        .Cells(1).Select
        Application.CutCopyMode = False
        On Error Resume Next
        .DrawingObjects.Visible = True
        .DrawingObjects.Delete
        On Error GoTo 0
        For r = 1 To rng.Rows.Count
            .Rows(r).RowHeight = rng.Rows(r).RowHeight
        Next r
    End With

    'Publish the sheet to a htm file
    With TempWB.PublishObjects.Add( _
         SourceType:=xlSourceRange, _
         Filename:=TempFile, _
         Sheet:=TempWB.Sheets(1).Name, _
         Source:=TempWB.Sheets(1).UsedRange.Address, _
         HtmlType:=xlHtmlStatic)
        .Publish (True)
    End With

    'Read all data from the htm file into RangetoHTML
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set ts = fso.GetFile(TempFile).OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)
    RangetoHTML = ts.ReadAll
    ts.Close
    RangetoHTML = Replace(RangetoHTML, "align=center x:publishsource=", _
                          "align=left x:publishsource=")
    RangetoHTML = Replace(RangetoHTML, "<!--[if !excel]>&nbsp;&nbsp;<![endif]-->", "")

    'Close TempWB
    TempWB.Close savechanges:=False

    'Delete the htm file we used in this function
    Kill TempFile

    Set ts = Nothing
    Set fso = Nothing
    Set TempWB = Nothing
End Function

Solution

  • You can achieve it by taking a screenshot(using VBA Code) of the relevant range (Has to be visible in the screen) and then save and import that image in Outlook..

    This will get you started. I have added the comments so you should not have a problem understanding it. If you still do then simply ask.

    Option Explicit
    
    Sub SaveRngAsImage()
        Dim flName As String
        Dim ws As Worksheet
        Dim shp As Shape
        Dim objChart As ChartObject
        Dim chrt As Chart
    
        Set ws = ActiveSheet
    
        '~~> Change as applicable
        flName = "C:\Users\routs\Desktop\MyRng.jpg"
    
        '~~> Delete the above image
        If Dir(flName) <> "" Then Kill flName
    
        '~~> Check if what the user selected is a valid range
        If TypeName(Selection) <> "Range" Then
            MsgBox "Select a range first."
            Exit Sub
        End If
    
        '~~> Take a screenshot of the range
        Selection.CopyPicture xlScreen, xlBitmap
        DoEvents
    
        '~~> Paste the screenshot in the worksheet and assign it to
        '~~> a shape object so that we can use it's approx width and
        '~~> Height to create the chart object
        With ws
            .Paste
            DoEvents
            Set shp = .Shapes(.Shapes.Count)
            Set objChart = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add(0, 0, shp.Width, shp.Height)
            Set chrt = objChart.Chart
    
            With chrt
                shp.Copy '~~> Copy the shape (in case the clipboard is cleared)
                .ChartArea.Select
                .Paste
                '~~> Save the image
                .Export ("C:\Users\routs\Desktop\MyRng.jpg")
            End With
            shp.Delete
            objChart.Delete
        End With
    
        '~~> Attaching the above image to outlook email body
        'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44869790/embed-picture-in-outlook-mail-body-excel-vba
        Dim OutApp As Object
        Dim OutMail As Object
    
        Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
        Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
    
        With OutMail
            .To = "[email protected]"
            .Subject = "Attaching an image"
            .Attachments.Add flName, 1, 0
            .HtmlBody = "<html><p>Dear XYZ</p>" & _
            "<img src=""cid:MyRng.jpg"">"
            .Display
        End With
    End Sub
    

    Screenshot

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