Extract Outlook body to Excel VBA

Question

after searching multiple things, and getting errors How do I upon pressing "f5" in a vba script copy the body of an email into an excel sheet /csv where every line = a new cell below.

Thanks

Sorry, this is causing me nothing but trouble. What I have tried so far http://smallbusiness.chron.com/export-outlook-emails-excel-spreadsheets-41441.html

How to copy Outlook mail message into excel using VBA or Macros

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?415518-RESOLVED-outlook-the-macros-in-this-project-are-disabled

http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=181512

and a few more, last year.

Answer 1

This will work for you. we are basically splitting the email body into an array based on a new line. Notice that this will yield blank cells if you had a blank line in the email body.

Public Sub SplitEmail() ' Ensure reference to Word and Excel Object model is set
    Dim rpl As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim itm As Object
    Set itm = GetCurrentItem()
    If Not itm Is Nothing Then
        Set rpl = itm.Reply
        rpl.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
        'rpl.Display
    End If
    Dim objDoc As Word.Document
    Set objDoc = rpl.GetInspector.WordEditor
    Dim txt As String
    txt = objDoc.Content.text
    Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
    Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.application")
    xlApp.Visible = True
    Dim wb As Excel.Workbook
    Set wb = xlApp.Workbooks.Add
    Dim i As Long
    For i = LBound(Split(txt, Chr(13)), 1) To UBound(Split(txt, Chr(13)), 1)
        wb.Worksheets(1).Range("A" & i + 1).Value = Split(txt, Chr(13))(i)
    Next i
End Sub
Function GetCurrentItem() As Object
    Dim objApp As Outlook.Application
    Set objApp = Application
    On Error Resume Next
    Select Case TypeName(objApp.ActiveWindow)
    Case "Explorer"
    Set GetCurrentItem = objApp.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
    Case "Inspector"
    Set GetCurrentItem = objApp.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    End Select
    GetCurrentItem.UnRead = False
    Set objApp = Nothing
End Function

Answer 2

The Outlook object model doesn't recognize lines in the body. You can try to resize any inspector window in Outlook and see how the body lines are changed.

Anyway, you may try to use the Word object model to get the exact lines. Outlook uses Word as an email editor. The WordEditor property of the Inspector class returns an instance of the Document class which represents the message body. You can read more about all possible ways in the Chapter 17: Working with Item Bodies article.

The How to automate Microsoft Excel from Visual Basic article explains how to automate Excel from any external application.