This is great, but where is the new document?
It's an unsaved document. To attach it to an e-mail you have to save it in
the file system first.
Immediately after you execute a merge, the newly created merge document is
(usually) referenced by ActiveDocument, unless you have requested an error
document.
Depending on what you are doing, you can also merge directly to e-mail and
specify that you want to send the document as an attachment. But then you
don't get to specify the body text. If you need to do that and you happen to
be using Outlook (not Outlook Express) as your email client, the following
(VBA) macro may give you some clues:
Sub EmailOneDocPerSourceRecWithBody()
Dim bOutlookStarted As Boolean
Dim bTerminateMerge As Boolean
Dim intSourceRecord As Integer
Dim objMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim objMerge As Word.MailMerge
Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application
Dim strMailSubject As String
Dim strMailTo As String
Dim strMailBody As String
Dim strOutputDocumentName As String
bOutlookStarted = False
bTerminateMerge = False
' Set up a reference to the
' Activedocument, partly because
' the ActiveDocument changes as you
' merge each record
Set objMerge = ActiveDocument.MailMerge
' Start Outlook as necessary
On Error Resume Next
Set objOutlook = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
If Err <> 0 Then
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
bOutlookStarted = True
End If
With objMerge
' If no data source has been defined,
' do it here using OpenDataSource.
' But if it is already defined in the
' document, you should not need to
' define it here.
' .OpenDataSource _
' Name:="whatever"
intSourceRecord = 1
Do Until bTerminateMerge
.DataSource.ActiveRecord = intSourceRecord
' if we have gone past the end
' (and possibly, if there are no records)
' then the Activerecord will not be what
' we have just tried to set it to
If .DataSource.ActiveRecord <> intSourceRecord Then
bTerminateMerge = True
' the record exists
Else
' while we are looking at the
' correct activerecord,
' create the mail subject, body and "to"
' Just some sample code here - replace it with
' whatever you need
strMailSubject = _
"Results for " & _
objMerge.DataSource.DataFields("Firstname") & _
" " & objMerge.DataSource.DataFields("Lastname")
strMailBody = _
"Dear " & objMerge.DataSource.DataFields("Firstname") & _
vbCrLf & _
"Please find attached a Word document containing" & vbCrLf & _
"your results for..." & vbCrLf & _
vbCrLf & _
"Yours" & vbCrLf & _
"Your name"
strMailTo = objMerge.DataSource.DataFields("Emailaddress")
' create the document path name
' In this case it can be te same for every recipient,
' but if you want to retain copies of the
' document, you can use info. in the data source
' this is an example - insert your
' own pathname here
strOutputDocumentName = "c:\a\results.doc"
' strOutputDocumentName = _
' "c:\mymergeletters\_" & _
' .DataSource.DataFields("Lastname").Value & _
' " letter.doc"
.DataSource.FirstRecord = intSourceRecord
.DataSource.LastRecord = intSourceRecord
.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
.Execute
' The Activedocument is always the
' output document
' Add any parameters you need to these calls
ActiveDocument.SaveAs strOutputDocumentName
ActiveDocument.Close
' Now create a mail item
Set objMailItem = objOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With objMailItem
.Subject = strMailSubject
.Body = strMailBody
.To = strMailTo
.Attachments.Add strOutputDocumentName, olByValue, 1
'.Save
.Send
End With
Set objMailItem = Nothing
intSourceRecord = intSourceRecord + 1
End If
Loop
End With
' Close Outlook if appropriate
If bOutlookStarted Then
objOutlook.Quit
End If
Set objOutlook = Nothing
Set objMerge = Nothing
End Sub
Peter Jamieson
