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How to send an email at specific time of a day in Excel?

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In some cases, you may need to delay sending an email at a specific time during your work. Do you know how to achieve this? This article is going to show you a method of sending an email at the specific time of a day in Excel.

Send an email at specific time of a day with VBA code

Send an email at specific time of a day with VBA code

The following VBA codes can help you send an email at the specific time of a day in Excel. Please do as follows.

1. Press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then copy below VBA code into the Module window.

VBA code 1: Send an email at specific time of a day in Excel

Sub SendEmail()
'Updated by Extendoffice 2018/3/5
Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.application")
Set objMail = olApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With objMail
 .Display
 .To = "Email address"
 .Subject = "Send email"
 'HTML for fun
 '.BodyFormat = olFormatHTML
 .HTMLBody = "<HTML><H2>Email Body</BODY></HTML>"
 '.Send
 
End With
End Sub

3. Double click ThisWorkbook in the left pane to open the ThisWorkbook (Code) window. And then copy below VBA code 2 into the window. See screenshot:

copy and paste the vba code into ThisWorkbook module

VBA code 2: Send an email at specific time of a day in Excel

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
'Updated by Extendoffice 2018/3/5
    Application.OnTime TimeValue("11:00:00"), "SendEmail"
End Sub

Note: In the code 2, please specify the sending time as you need.

4. Press the Alt + Q keys to close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

5. Click File > Save As > Browse.

Click File > Save As > Browse

6. In the Save As dialog box, pleas choose a folder to save the workbook, name it as you need, select Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook format from the Save as type drop-down list, and finally click the Save button. See screenshot:

select Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook format from the Save as type

From now on, as soon as the specific time arriving, the certain email will display automatically. Please click the Send button to send this email.

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