How to send email from Excel with mailto hyperlink function?

In Excel, you can use the mailto hyperlink function to create an email from Excel. The email created by mailto hyperlink includes the recipient’s email address, subject and body. In this article, we will show you how to send email from Excel with mailto hyperlink function.

Send email from Excel with hyperlink function
Send email from Excel with hyperlink function
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Send email from Excel with hyperlink function

In this section, I will show you how to directly create a mailto hyperlink in Excel. Please do as follows.

1. Firstly, you need to enter the recipient address, email subject and the email body separately into cell B1, B2 and B3. See screenshot.

2. Select a blank cell which you want the mailto hyperlink locates in, such as cell B4.

3. Copy and paste the hyperlink function =HYPERLINK("mailto:" & B1 & "?subject="& B2 & "&body=" & B3, "Linking text") into the Formula Bar of the selected cell, and then press the Enter key.

Note: In the formula, B1, B2 and B3 contain the recipient’s address, email subject and body; and the “Linking text” is the display text of this hyperlink. You can change them as you need.

From now on, when click the mailto hyperlink, an Outlook email will be created automatically with the specified recipient, subject and body. See screenshot:

Send email from Excel with hyperlink function

As the characters of above method is limited, here I introduce anther method for you to create a mailto hyperlink in Excel.

1. Select a cell which you want to create a mailto hyperlink.

2. Click Insert > Hyperlink. See screenshot:

3. In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, you need to:

1). Click E-mail Address in the Link to pane;

2). Type the recipient’s email address into the E-mail address box;

3). In the Subject box, type in the email subject, after typing the email subject, enter &body=email body;

For example, if the email subject is “subject of the email” and the email body is “body of the email”, please enter subject of the email&body=body of the email into the Subject box.

4). Click the OK button. See screenshot:

Then the mailto hyperlink is created. Click on it, an Outlook email will be created with all specified recipient’s address, subject and body listed out.

Easily send email through Outlook based on created mailing list with Kutools for Excel

This section will recommend the Send Emails utility of Kutools for Excel. With this utility, you can easily send emails with specified mailing list you have created in Excel. Please do as follows.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Firstly, you need to create mailing list you need in Excel. Click Kutools Plus > Create Mailing List. See screenshot:

2. In the Create Mailing List dialog box, please check the fields you need to include in the email in both Columns for Mailing list and Attach files sections. Specify a location to place the created mailing list and then click the Create button. See screenshot:

3. Now a sample mailing list is created. Please fill in the corresponding fields with your needed content as below screenshot shown:

4. Select the whole Mailing list, then click Send Emails button in the ribbon. See screenshot:

5. In the Send Emails dialog box, you can see all fields are filled with the corresponding mailing list content, compose the mail body as you need, check the Send emails via Outlook box, and finally click the Send button to send the email. See screenshot:

6. After that, a Kutools for Excel dialog box pops up to tell you about the sending of the email, please click the OK button and close the Send Emails dialog box.

Now you can go to the Outlook's Send Items folder to check the sent email. See screenshot:

If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

Easily send email through Outlook based on created mailing list in Excel with Kutools for Excel

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jamievo · 1 years ago
Is it possible to have a hyperlink of the file path of the workbook itself generated in the body of the email?
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Chadd · 1 years ago
@Trial version user I just figured out two work arounds for this trial version user
method 1) is to choose a cell that's outside your data and enter the fixed text there. A1 is the cell I chose for my example. in the formula you just need $ in front of the cell letter and number so it always will go to that cell no matter where you copy the formula to. (shown below in the fixed subject)
method 2) type the fixed info right in your formula with quotes example is the fixed body below

example: =HYPERLINK("mailto:" & B1 & "?subject="& $A$1 & "&body="&"fixed body","AutoEmail")
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Chadd · 1 years ago
@Gustavo yes I just figured out the work around for this Gustavo. example: =HYPERLINK("mailto:" & B1 & "?subject="& B2 & "&body=" & B5&" "&B6&" "&B7&" "&B8&", "Linking text")

im having an issue with the linking text to display afterwards, but other than that it works perfectly.
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Rach · 2 years ago
Hi, for the attachment, can it be any type of documents eg word, pdf? how much is your fee if I only want to send mass emails from excel spreadsheet?
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crystal · 3 years ago
@Trial version user Good Day,
This function does not take into account right now yet. Thank you for sharing.
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Trial version user · 3 years ago
Hello, as per the auto-emailing component, is it possible to have a fixed Subject and a fixed Body? In other words I want to send emails without typing anything.
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TIFFANI JONES · 3 years ago
@crystal Hello,

This was very helpful, I have one question, is there a way to create the body of the email such that B3 and B4 would be on their own separate line w/in the body of the email and not on one line? Make sense? I would like the feature to be such that it was like I pressed enter after B3 and B4 starts a new line.
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crystal · 3 years ago
@Gustavo Dear Gustavo,
Sorry can't solve this problem.
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Gustavo · 3 years ago
The body I'm using is a formula =concatenate(b5,b6,b7,b8) and it gives my a #value error. Is there a work around to use formulas?
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crystal · 3 years ago
@EmDee Sorry Mike,
Can't solve this problem.
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EmDee · 3 years ago
@EmDee Correction: Cell B3 - Sorry (Body of email)
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EmDee · 3 years ago
I love this function!My only issue is that if B4 is formatted as a date, outlook does not see it as such. (example if 10-Dec-17 = 402368")I'd love to find a work around for this! My B4 has conditional formatting, which requires the formatting to stay as is.
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Mike · 3 years ago
I love this function! My only issue is that if B4 is formatted as a date, outlook does not see it as such. (example if 10-Dec-17 = 402368")

I'd love to find a work around for this! My B4 has conditional formatting, which requires the formatting to stay as is.
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Vance · 3 years ago
@CHRIS There is, it is the Attachment= but, unfortunately, like you I have not found a way to include the current spreadsheet using it. You can use a Macro, but it only seems to work with Outlook:
Sub Email_Excel_Button()
ActiveWorkbook.SendMail Recipients:="you@there.com", Subject:="Spreadsheet"
End Sub
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Rishi Raj · 3 years ago
Thanks a lot its very helpful feature u describe here apart from that can we create a shortcut of attachment.
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crystal · 3 years ago
@setu Dear setu,

If you need to add another body in cell with this formula, please add this body cell into the body section and separate these two bodies by a seperator as you need: =HYPERLINK("mailto:"&B1&"?subject="&B2&"&body="&B3 &" "&B4,"Linking text"). See screenshot:
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setu · 3 years ago
how can i add another body in excel cell with your formula
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CHRIS · 3 years ago
@Ian Ian, as far as I know there is no attachment option in 'mailto:' syntax. It supports only aditional 'cc', 'bcc', 'subject' and 'body' fields.
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Ian · 3 years ago
Is there a formula to send the current worksheet or book as an attachment to a recipient?
Regards
Ian
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Chris · 3 years ago
I think there is some limitation in 'body=' string length that causes the '#ARG' error. Try to shorten the string.
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Paul · 3 years ago
@Will Will, you are leading with numbers that you intend to use as text so just insert an apostrophe before the number. (ex: '2017-2018 Insurance Invoices.)
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Rutva · 3 years ago
When i try to add email body in cell, it gives me error. How can it be resolved ?
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Rutva · 3 years ago
=HYPERLINK("mailto:" & B7 & "?subject="& B8 & "&body=" & B9 & "body=" & B10 & "body=" & B11 & "body=" & B12, "Linking text")

What if we want to add multiple lines in body ? I tried above formula but did not worked. Please help
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Will · 3 years ago
Great post. However, it will not work when I write 2017-2018 Insurance Invoices in the subject. If I simply write Insurance Invoices it works. Is there a limitation or a workaround solution? Thanks.
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Riz · 3 years ago
Hi, how can i send a complete table to email body using hyperlink function in Excel 2013?
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Riz · 3 years ago
Hi All, is it possible to send a complete table in the body of the email using this function?
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RF · 4 years ago
Hi,

I am using excel 2013, I have set up the e-mail link within excel. However when i click send the e-mail box pops up and requires me to click send manually. Is there a simple way or steps that I have to take in order to just click on the hyperlink and excel will automatically send the e-mail? And perhaps provide a confirmation that will log itself somewhere into the excel worksheet (so we know it's worked)?
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Mark W · 4 years ago
As above, Can you create an email with the workbook as an attachment?
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Shez · 4 years ago
Hi, thanks in advance for the help.
Can you create an email with the workbook as an attachment?
basically create a mailto hyperlink that creates an email with the workbook as an attachment, from the same workbook.
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ANAND KUMAR · 4 years ago
Thanks Alan ☺.........It did work.
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Alan F. · 4 years ago
=HYPERLINK("mailto:"&B1&"?subject="&B2&"&body="&B3&"&cc="&B4&"& A5","Email To Someone")
where b4 is in the format someone@somewhere.com;someonelese@somewhereelse.com
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Curtis · 4 years ago
This does not work, at least with Office 2016. The created link places the cell reference in the To filed of the email opened in Outlook rather than the email address. In the example used, the email will be addressed to B1 rather than the content of cell B1.
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Anand Kumar · 4 years ago
How can we add CC and BCC column there. Please explain.
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