Add CC and BCC with Mail Merge
I am trying to add a cc function to a merge. In other words, I need to do more than personalize emails to different email addresses. I would also like every email to include a CC that shows the same email to multiple recipients.
Example: The same email to John Doe can be automatically sent to his manager.
I tried to add, and; and also merge two cells in excel with addresses and errors.
I also read an article showing how to send attachments to multiple recipients and modify it to make cc work. See the article below.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm
The code I have provided is shown below. This allowed me to cc, however, it only goes through with the first row of letters and no one else. Also, the message body is not displayed.
Any pointers?
Sub emailmergewithattachments()
'Global Config Variables
Dim saveSent As Boolean, displayMsg As Boolean, attachBCC As Boolean
saveSent = True 'Saves a copy of the messages into the senders "sent" box
displayMsg = False 'Pulls up a copy of all messages to be sent - WARNING, do not use on long lists!
attachBCC = False 'Adds third column data into the BCC field. Will throw error if this column does not exist.
Dim Source As Document, Maillist As Document, TempDoc As Document
Dim Datarange As Range
Dim i As Long, j As Long
Dim bStarted As Boolean
Dim oOutlookApp As Outlook.Application
'Dim oOutlookApp As Application
Dim oItem As Outlook.MailItem
'Dim oItem As MailMessage
Dim mysubject As String, message As String, title As String
Set Source = ActiveDocument
' Check if Outlook is running. If it is not, start Outlook
On Error Resume Next
Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
If Err <> 0 Then
Set oOutlookApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
bStarted = True
End If
' Open the catalog mailmerge document
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
.Show
End With
Set Maillist = ActiveDocument
' Show an input box asking the user for the subject to be inserted into the email messages
message = "Enter the subject to be used for each email message." ' Set prompt.
title = " Email Subject Input" ' Set title.
' Display message, title
mysubject = InputBox(message, title)
' Iterate through the Sections of the Source document and the rows of the catalog mailmerge document,
' extracting the information to be included in each email.
For j = 0 To Source.Sections.Count - 1
Set oItem = oOutlookApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
' modification begins here
With oItem
.Subject = mysubject
.body = ActiveDocument.Content
.Body = Source.Sections(j).Range.Text
Set Datarange = Maillist.Tables(1).Cell(j, 1).Range
Datarange.End = Datarange.End - 1
.To = Datarange
Set Datarange = Maillist.Tables(1).Cell(j, 2).Range
Datarange.End = Datarange.End - 1
.CC = Datarange
If attachBCC Then
Set Datarange = Maillist.Tables(1).Cell(j, 3).Range
Datarange.End = Datarange.End - 1
.CC = Datarange
End If
For i = 2 To Maillist.Tables(1).Columns.Count
Set Datarange = Maillist.Tables(1).Cell(j, i).Range
Datarange.End = Datarange.End - 1
.Attachments.Add Trim(Datarange.Text), olByValue, 1
Next i
If displayMsg Then
.Display
End If
If saveSent Then
.SaveSentMessageFolder = mpf
End If
.Send
End With
Set oItem = Nothing
Next j
Maillist.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
' Close Outlook if it was started by this macro.
If bStarted Then
oOutlookApp.Quit
End If
MsgBox Source.Sections.Count - 1 & " messages have been sent."
'Clean up
Set oOutlookApp = Nothing
End Sub
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First, I would highlight your email code and the code to iterate over your spreadsheet. Here I am taking the email code for the look and feel (remember to set links -> Outlook object model, as I used an earlier suggestion)
Sub SendMessage(recipients As Variant, subject As String, body As String, Optional ccRecips As Variant, Optional bccRecips As Variant, Optional DisplayMsg As Boolean, Optional AttachmentPath As Variant)
Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application
Dim objOutlookMsg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim objOutlookRecip As Outlook.Recipient
Dim objOutlookAttach As Outlook.Attachment
Dim item As Variant
' Create the Outlook session.
On Error Resume Next
Set objOutlook = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
If Err <> 0 Then
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
End If
On error goto 0
' Create the message.
Set objOutlookMsg = objOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With objOutlookMsg
' Add the To recipient(s) to the message.
For Each item In recipients
Set objOutlookRecip = .recipients.Add(item)
objOutlookRecip.Type = olTo
Next
' Add the CC recipient(s) to the message.
If Not IsMissing(ccRecips) Then
For Each item In ccRecips
Set objOutlookRecip = .recipients.Add(item)
objOutlookRecip.Type = olTo
Next
End If
' Add the BCC recipient(s) to the message.
If Not IsMissing(bccRecips) Then
For Each item In bccRecips
Set objOutlookRecip = .recipients.Add(item)
objOutlookRecip.Type = olBCC
Next
End If
' Set the Subject, Body, and Importance of the message.
.subject = subject
.body = body 'this can also be HTML, which is great if you want to improve the look of your email, but you must change the format to match
' Add attachments to the message.
If Not IsMissing(AttachmentPath) Then
Set objOutlookAttach = .Attachments.Add(AttachmentPath)
End If
' Resolve each Recipient name -this may not be necessary if you have fully qualified addresses.
For Each objOutlookRecip In .recipients
objOutlookRecip.Resolve
Next
' Should we display the message before sending?
If DisplayMsg Then
.Display
Else
.Save
.Send
End If
End With
Set objOutlook = Nothing
End Sub
Note. Recipients, CC, and BCC expect arrays of values, which can also be just one value. This means that we can perhaps send a raw range to it, or we can load that range into an array and send it to that.
Now that we've created a good generic way to send emails (which is easy to reuse), we can think about the logic of what we email. I built the following email but didn't spend a lot of time on it (or tested it as it is pretty specific to your tables). I believe it should be very close though.
While writing this, I think you will see a major trick for editing yours, however - the key was the separator text in cell CC, used by the separator. This creates an array of addresses that can then be iterated over and added to the recipient, CC, or BCC.
Sub DocumentSuperMailSenderMagicHopefully()
Dim Source As Document, Maillist As Document, TempDoc As Document
Dim mysubject As String, message As String, title As String
Dim datarange As Range 'word range I'm guessing...
Dim body As String
Dim recips As Variant
Dim ccs As Variant
Dim bccs As Variant
Dim j As Integer
Dim attachs As Variant
Set Source = ActiveDocument
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen) 'Hey, I'm not sure what this does, but I'm leaving it there.
.Show
End With
Set Maillist = ActiveDocument
' Show an input box asking the user for the subject to be inserted into the email messages
message = "Enter the subject to be used for each email message." ' Set prompt.
title = " Email Subject Input" ' Set title.
' Display message, title
mysubject = InputBox(message, title)
' Iterate through the Sections of the Source document and the rows of the catalog mailmerge document,
' extracting the information to be included in each email.
'IMPORTANT: This assumes your email addresses in the table are separated with commas!
For j = 0 To Source.Sections.Count - 1
body = Source.Sections(j).Range.Text
'get to recipients from tables col 1 (I'd prefer this in excel, it tables are much better!)
Set datarange = Maillist.tables(1).Cell(j, 1).Range
datarange.End = datarange.End - 1
recips = Split(datarange.Text)
'CC's
Set datarange = Maillist.tables(1).Cell(j, 2).Range
datarange.End = datarange.End - 1
ccs = Split(datarange.Text)
'BCC's
Set datarange = Maillist.tables(1).Cell(j, 3).Range
datarange.End = datarange.End - 1
bccs = Split(datarange.Text)
'Attachments array, should be paths, handled by the mail app, in an array
ReDim attachs(Maillist.tables(1).Columns.Count - 3) 'minus 2 because you start i at 2 and minus one more for option base 0
For i = 2 To Maillist.tables(1).Columns.Count
Set datarange = Maillist.tables(1).Cell(j, i).Range
datarange.End = datarange.End - 1
attachs(i) = Trim(datarange.Text)
Next i
'call the mail sender
SendMessage recips, subject, body, ccs, bccs, False, attachs
Next j
Maillist.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
MsgBox Source.Sections.Count - 1 & " messages have been sent."
End Sub
This turned into a longer post than I expected. Good luck with your project!
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I had the same problem as CC using mail merge from Excel and also wanted to use the BCC field and have subjects that are variables for each email message) and also didn't find a good tool, so I created my own tool and just released it to others. Let me know if this solves your problem: http://emailmerge.cc/
It doesn't handle attachments yet, but I was planning on adding this soon.
EDIT: EmailMerge.cc now also handles attachments, high / low priority, read receipts [unfortunately some people still want this;)]
I hope this is helpful to you, I intend not to spam SO;)
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