Help With Outlook Macro For Replying To An Email

Necroscope

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Hi guys.

I am trying to create a simple Macro in Outlook (2002) which will send a reply back to the original email recipient with specific text in the subject and body. (I know I could probably do this using Rules but I need to be able to manually choose who to send this reply to.)

I found some VBA and tailored it to suit but when I click on the menu button that I linked to this Macro, I get a prompt saying, "A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf..." and you need to click YES to send it. If you click NO, you get a debug error.

Is there something in the code (copied below) that I can add/amend to stop this prompt from appearing? (I thought this message only appeared if you use VBA from another program, not when entering VBA directly into Outlook.)

Also, when I click on the Macro button, it opens up the auto-reply in a new window so that I'm still left with the original email open. Is there a line of code I can enter that will close this email too? I would appreciate your help.

Sub EmailReply()
Dim Reply As Outlook.MailItem
Dim Original As Outlook.MailItem
Set Original = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection(1)
Set Reply = Original.Reply
Reply.Attachments.Add Original
Reply.Subject = "Important Notice"
Reply.Body = "Body text to be entered here"
Reply.Display
Reply.Send
End Sub

Thanks.

Richard
 

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FWIW I had no problems with your code. (office 2010) No error messages etc.
I think you need to check your antivirus or other security settings.
 
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Hi BrianB.

Thanks for the info. I'm using this VBA in Outlook at work so maybe there's some security setting causing the problem? Oh well, I might just have to live with it! :oops:
 
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