MsoEnvelope.Item property (Office)

Gets a MailItem object that can be used to send the document as an email. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.Item

expression Required. A variable that represents an MsoEnvelope object.

Example

The following example sends the active Microsoft Word document as an email to the email address that you pass to the subroutine.

Sub SendMail(ByVal strRecipient As String) 
 
 'Use a With...End With block to reference the msoEnvelope object. 
 With Application.ActiveDocument.MailEnvelope 
 
 'Add some introductory text before the body of the email message. 
 .Introduction = "Please read this and send me your comments." 
 
 'Return a MailItem object that you can use to send the document. 
 With .Item 
 
 'All of the mail item settings are saved with the document. 
 'When you add a recipient to the Recipients collection 
 'or change other properties these settings will persist. 
 
 .Recipients.Add strRecipient 
 .Subject = "Here is the document." 
 
 'The body of this message will be 
 'the content of the active document. 
 .Send 
 End With 
 End With 
End Sub

See also

• MsoEnvelope object members

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