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How to send email from Excel with hyperlink in the email body?

Have you ever tried to send an email with VBA code in Excel? And how to add hyperlinks to the email body text when sending email? This article will help to solve this problem.

Insert hyperlink into email body with VBA code

Insert hyperlink into email body with VBA code

The below VBA code can help to send email from Excel and insert specific hyperlink in the email body. Please do as follows.

1. Launch your workbook, 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, and then copy the below VBA code into the Module editor.

VBA code: Insert hyperlink into email body

Sub EmailHyperlink()
'updated by Extendoffice 20190815
Dim xOtl As Object
Dim xOtlMail As Object
Dim xStrBody As String
    xStrBody = "Hi there:" & "<br>" _
              & "Please click " & "<a href=" & "http://www.extendoffice.com"">Here</a> to open the page" & "<br>" _
              & "Thank you."
    On Error Resume Next
    Set xOtl = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set xOtlMail = xOtl.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    With xOtlMail
        .To = "Email Address"
        .CC = "Email Address "
        .BCC = " Email Address "
        .Subject = "Subject line"
        .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & xStrBody
        .Display
    End With
    Set xOtl = Nothing
    Set xOtlMail = Nothing
End Sub

Notes:

  • Please change the body content and the hyperlink in the xStrBody line.
  • Replace the “Email Address” in the .To, .CC and .BCC lines with the actual email addresses you will send email to. If you don’t need the CC and BCC lines, just remove them from the whole code, or add a single quote before the lines, such as 'CC =”Email Address”.
  • Replace the “Subject line” in the .Subject line with your email subject own.

3. Press the F5 key to run the code. Then the email is created with specified fields and body with hyperlink listed inside, click the Send button to send it.

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AuroraShell
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Does anyone know how to combine/ add this with a code I am already using to send an email? The one bellow?

Public Sub CheckAndSendMail()
'Updated by Extendoffice 2018/11/22
Dim xRgDate As Range
Dim xRgSend As Range
Dim xRgText As Range
Dim xRgDone As Range
Dim xOutApp As Object
Dim xMailItem As Object
Dim xLastRow As Long
Dim vbCrLf As String
Dim xMailBody As String
Dim xRgDateVal As String
Dim xRgSendVal As String
Dim xMailSubject As String
Dim i As Long
On Error Resume Next
Set xRgDate = Application.InputBox("Please select the due date column:", "KuTools For Excel", , , , , , 8)
If xRgDate Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Set xRgSend = Application.InputBox("Please select the recipients?email column:", "KuTools For Excel", , , , , , 8)
If xRgSend Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Set xRgText = Application.InputBox("Select the column with reminded content in your email:", "KuTools For Excel", , , , , , 8)
If xRgText Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
xLastRow = xRgDate.Rows.count
Set xRgDate = xRgDate(1)
Set xRgSend = xRgSend(1)
Set xRgText = xRgText(1)
Set xOutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
For i = 1 To xLastRow
xRgDateVal = ""
xRgDateVal = xRgDate.Offset(i - 1).Value
If xRgDateVal <> "" Then
If CDate(xRgDateVal) - Date <= 7 And CDate(xRgDateVal) - Date > 0 Then
xRgSendVal = xRgSend.Offset(i - 1).Value
xMailSubject = xRgText.Offset(i - 1).Value & " on " & xRgDateVal
vbCrLf = "<br><br>"
xMailBody = "<HTML><BODY>"
xMailBody = xMailBody & "Dear " & xRgSendVal & vbCrLf
xMailBody = xMailBody & "Text : " & xRgText.Offset(i - 1).Value & vbCrLf
xMailBody = xMailBody & "</BODY></HTML>"
Set xMailItem = xOutApp.CreateItem(0)
With xMailItem
.Subject = xMailSubject
.To = xRgSendVal
.HTMLBody = xMailBody
.Display
'.Send
End With
Set xMailItem = Nothing
End If
End If
Next
Set xOutApp = Nothing
End Sub
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Hi Crystal, no problem, thank you anyway.
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Florian Mußler
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Hallo,

wie würde der Code aussehen, wenn im Email-Text genau der Link zu der Datei stehen soll, aus der heraus die Email generiert wurde? Nach dem Motto: "Gehe zu Datei xxx (als Link) und trage dort etwas ein.

Vielen Dank und schöne Grüße
Florian
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crystal     Florian Mußler
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Hi Florian Mußler,
Please change the following lines
 xStrBody = "Hi there:" & "<br>" _
              & "Please click " & "<a href="/ & "http://www.extendoffice.com"">Here</a> to open the page" & "<br>" _
              & "Thank you."

to
 xStrBody = "Hi there:" & "<br>" _
              & "Go to the file " & "<a href="/ & "I:\Work\Crystal\2023\Sales Report.xlsx"">Sales Report</a> and enter the content there" & "<br>" _
              & "Thank you."

where "I:\Work\Crystal\2023\Sales Report.xlsx" is the path of the file.
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Florian     crystal
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Thank you for your help. This already works great. Do you know how to write the code, if I have to extract the file address out of a cell?
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Florian     crystal
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Hi crystal,

thank you very much for your reply. This is what I came up with at first. The thing is, that the file we are talking about is based on a template. That means, that the file name is changed to an individual file name, that is always different. So the file name (link) in the code should be a variable, always leading to this exacte file (in which the code is running).

I hope I could describe this correctly, so you understand.

Thank you.
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crystal     Florian
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Hi Florian,

I understand what you mean now. But I'm sorry I don't know how to create a hyperlink to a workbook that contains a variable name.
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Bonjour,
Merci pour cette procédure.
Comment puis-je remplacer le lien (qui est fixe) par un lien variable ?
...
Dim xStrBody As String
Dim Lien As String
Lien = "https://www.cyclodetente.be/"

xStrBody = "Hi there:" & "<br>" _
& "Please click " & "<a href="/ & "http://www.extendoffice.com"">Here</a> to open the page" & "<br>" _
& "Thank you."
...
Donc, remplacer "http://www.extendoffice.com" par la variable "Lien"

Un tout grand merci pour le retour,
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crystal     Christian
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Hi Christian,

Sorry I don't quite understand what you mean. For clarity, please attach a sample file or a screenshot with your data and desired results.
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my link isn't clickable and I'm not sure why.

"Please Print <a href="/"http://codes" & Range("JobNumber") & "&ReportId=1"">" & "PhoneCodes</a>"

The link appears but I have to right-click on the email for it to open up. Any suggestions? Also, I don't really know much about VBA. This is something new I'm learning on my own.
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crystal     Maryanne
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Hi Maryanne,
By default, when you composing an email, hyperlinks are opened by clicking with pressing or holding the Ctrl key.
If you want to open a hyperlink with one click only, please turn off this function as follows.
1. In your Outlook, click File > Options.
2. In the Outlook Options dialog box, click Mail in the left pane, and then click the Editor Options button in the Compose Messages section;
3. In the Editor Options dialog box, click Advanced in the left pane, and then uncheck the Use CTRL + Click to follow hyperlink checkbox. See screenshot:
https://www.extendoffice.com/images/stories/comments/comment-picture-zxm/hyperlink.png
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HAMZA GUICH
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please i need help it doesnt work when the link have spaces in itfor ex file path MsgBox "C:\Users\Desktop\fs caché\Fusion fichier\TENDERING.xlsm"
xstrbody = "Request for an approval, <br> You can access to the file from " & "<a href= " & link & ">here</a>"
the link will be in this case : C:\Users\Desktop\fsany idea?
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You can use: xstrbody = "Request for an approval, <br> You can access to the file from " & "<a href="/"" & link & """> here</a >"
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Tawsif Rahman
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this code is great, but how to send the current excel sheet in the email?
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rajeshn_in     Tawsif Rahman
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you use "xStrBody" part in your existing code, other search Excel to outlook email code online and use "xStrBody" this part.
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Raja Sekhar     Tawsif Rahman
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you can use "xStrBody" part in other email code, which you are using now. otherwise search "excel to outlook email code".
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