sending worksheet contents by email

[anandvh]

Hi,

In my application, I need to send reminder letters by email. The body of the email is filled out in worksheet REMD.

Using references from this and a couple of other sites, I got some code to send out the email using mozilla thunderbird. When I run this code, the email window comes up with the "To" and "Subject" correctly filled. But the body of the mail is blank. Have been breaking my head on this as I dont understand some of the commands used. The code is below

Dim sSubject As String, rBody As Range, sTo As String, sFileName As String
                    If sOutput = "Email" Then
                        Set rBody = Nothing
                        If wsCntc.Range("V" & iRemRow) <> "" Then
                            Rng = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("REMD").Range("A1:H41")
                            sMemMail = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("CNTC").Range("V" & iRemRow).Value
                            sMemID = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("PERS").Range("C" & iRemRow).Value
                            sSubject = "Canara Union Subscription Due - Membership ID " & sMemID
                            Set rBody = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("REMD").Range("A1:H41")
                            strShell = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird" & " -compose """ & "to='" & sMemMail & "'," & _
                                "subject='" & sSubject & "'," & "body=" & RangetoHTML(rBody) & """"
                            Call Shell(strShell, vbNormalFocus)
                        End If

the code for RangetoHTML is below

Function RangetoHTML(Rng As Range)
' Changed by Ron de Bruin 28-Oct-2006
' Working in Office 2000-2010
    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 x:publishsource=", _
                          "align=left x:publishsource=")
    '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

Can someone help me get the code to work. Any help greatly appreciated.

Anand