Hiding first column of Email

[eddieum1]

Hi there,

I'm new to VBA and using Ron's Email template to send recipients a table of data. However, I want to hide the first column in the body of the email since it is for email addresses used in the VBA to send out messages. Does anyone know how to exclude the first column? I tried .Resize(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count - 1), but that excludes the last column, not the first.

In addition, I'd like to reference another name column in the body of the email. Instead of saying "Hi there," I'd like to pull the name from another column. If anyone can help with either of these, would really appreciate it. Below is a snippet of the code.


Sub mail2()
'For Tips see: Excel Automation - Ron de Bruin
'Don't forget to copy the function RangetoHTML in the module.
'Working in Excel 2000-2016
Dim OutApp As Object
Dim OutMail As Object
Dim rng As Range
Dim Ash As Worksheet
Dim Cws As Worksheet
Dim Rcount As Long
Dim Rnum As Long
Dim FilterRange As Range
Dim FieldNum As Integer
Dim StrBody As String

StrBody = "</center><p style='font-family:calibri;font-size:15'>Hi there," & "<br><br>" & _
"<p style='font-family:calibri;font-size:15'>Hello. " & "<br>" & _
"" & ""

On Error GoTo cleanup
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

With Application
.EnableEvents = False
.ScreenUpdating = False
End With

'Set filter sheet, you can also use Sheets("MySheet")
Set Ash = Sheets("Watchlist")

'Set filter range and filter column (column with e-mail addresses)
Set FilterRange = Ash.Range("A1:O" & Ash.Rows.Count)
FieldNum = 2 'Filter column = B because the filter range start in column A

'Add a worksheet for the unique list and copy the unique list in A1
Set Cws = Worksheets.Add
FilterRange.Columns(FieldNum).AdvancedFilter _
Action:=xlFilterCopy, _
CopyToRange:=Cws.Range("A1"), _
CriteriaRange:="", Unique:=True

'Count of the unique values + the header cell
Rcount = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(Cws.Columns(1))

With Worksheets("Watchlist").Cells
.EntireColumn.AutoFit
.EntireRow.AutoFit
End With

'If there are unique values start the loop
If Rcount >= 2 Then
For Rnum = 2 To Rcount

'Filter the FilterRange on the FieldNum column
FilterRange.AutoFilter Field:=FieldNum, _
Criteria1:=Cws.Cells(Rnum, 1).Value

'If the unique value is a mail addres create a mail
If Cws.Cells(Rnum, 1).Value Like "?*@?*.?*" Then

With Ash.AutoFilter.Range
On Error Resume Next
With .Resize(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count - 1)
Set rng = .SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
End With
On Error GoTo 0
End With

Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)

On Error Resume Next
With OutMail
.to = Cws.Cells(Rnum, 1).Value
.Subject = "Hello"
.HTMLBody = StrBody & RangetoHTML(rng)
.Send 'Or use Send
End With
On Error GoTo 0

Set OutMail = Nothing
End If

'Close AutoFilter
Ash.AutoFilterMode = False

Next Rnum
End If

cleanup:
Set OutApp = Nothing
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Cws.Delete
Application.DisplayAlerts = True

With Application
.EnableEvents = True
.ScreenUpdating = True
End With
End Sub
Function RangetoHTML(rng As Range)
' Changed by Ron de Bruin 28-Oct-2006
' Working in Office 2000-2016
Dim fso As Object
Dim ts As Object
Dim TempFile As String
Dim TempWB As Workbook

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).Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
On Error Resume Next
.DrawingObjects.Visible = True
.DrawingObjects.Delete
On Error GoTo 0
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 xublishsource=", _
"align=left xublishsource=")

'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

 

[James006]

Hi,

Have you tried Offset(0,1) to modify your top left reference cell ...

 

[eddieum1]

Hi,

Have you tried Offset(0,1) to modify your top left reference cell ...

Whew! Had to find out where to place the offset, but that seemed to work. Thank you so much!

 

[James006]

Glad you could fix your problem