Save email body to Word document

Question

My goal is copy and past body of active email from Outlook to the MS Word, and save Word to specified destination.

Code

Dim objMail as Outlook.MailItem
Dim objWord As Object
Dim objDocument As Object
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objTextStream As Object

Set objMail = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set objDocument = objWord.Documents.Add
objMail.GetInspector().WordEditor.Range.FormattedText.Copy
objDocument.Range.Paste

Its a right way ?

`objMail.Body` is the body text of a mail. Not sure how to paste that in Word though. — Andreas, Apr 08 '19 at 06:47

brno · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-08T09:28:37.757

You can check, if you really selected an email (either within the list or opened) and copy its formatted body like this:

Private Sub CopyEMailBodyToWord()
    Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application
    Dim objMail As Object      'Outlook.MailItem, but has to be checked later
    Dim objWord As Object
    Dim objDocument As Object

    Set objOutlook = Outlook.Application

    Select Case TypeName(objOutlook.ActiveWindow)
    Case "Explorer"     ' get current item in list view
        Set objMail = objOutlook.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
    Case "Inspector"    ' get open item
        Set objMail = objOutlook.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    End Select

    If objMail.Class = olMail Then
        Set objWord = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
        If objWord Is Nothing Then Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
        Set objDocument = objWord.Documents.Add

        ' copy formatted body:
        objMail.GetInspector.WordEditor.Range.FormattedText.Copy
        objDocument.Range.Paste

        ' or copy text only:
        'objDocument.Range.Text = objMail.Body

        With objWord.FileDialog(msoFileDialogSaveAs)
            .Title = "Save ..."
            .InitialFileName = objWord.Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath) & _
                "\" & objMail.Subject & ".docx"
            If .Show <> False Then
                objDocument.SaveAs _
                    FileName:=.SelectedItems(1), _
                    AddToMru:=False
            End If
        End With

    End If
End Sub

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '19 at 08:23

Is this what you are trying to do?

Option Explicit
Public Sub Example()
    Dim Email As Outlook.MailItem
    Set Email = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem

    'Word document
    Dim wdApp As Word.Application
    Set wdApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")

    Dim wdDoc As Word.Document
    Set wdDoc = wdApp.Documents.Add
        wdDoc.Activate

    Dim wdRange As Word.Range
    Set wdRange = wdDoc.Range(0, 0)

    'Add email to the document
    wdRange.Text = Email.Body

    wdApp.Visible = True

    wdDoc.SaveAs2 FileName:="C:\Temp\Example.docx", FileFormat:= _
        wdFormatXMLDocument, CompatibilityMode:=15
End Sub

You may also wanna work with ActiveWindow.Class to avoid any error on your CurrentItem

Save email body to Word document

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