Microsoft KB Archive/172718

= OL97: Programmatically Specifying an Attachment Type =

Article ID: 172718

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q172718



SUMMARY
Although the Microsoft Outlook 97 object model has four constants for determining how to attach one item to another, three of the constants are functionally equivalent. The result is that you can either embed an attachment or create a shortcut to an attachment.



MORE INFORMATION
The Vbaoutl.hlp file, which details the Outlook 97 object model, indicates that the OlAttachmentType constant has four possible values. The following table lists these constants and describes their behavior:   Constant          Value   Behavior olByValue         1      Creates embedded attachment olByReference     4      Creates shortcut to attachment olEmbeddedItem    5      Creates shortcut to attachment olOLE             6      Creates shortcut to attachment NOTE: All attachments will be added as an icon. There is no way to have an actual item, such as a picture or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, displayed in the message or notes portion of a form.

For more information on Vbaoutl.hlp, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

166738 OL97: How to Install Visual Basic Help

169751 OL97: Errors in Outlook Visual Basic Help (Vbaoutl.hlp)

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NOTE: This article assumes that you are familiar with Visual Basic Applications, Visual Basic Scripting, and with creating Microsoft Outlook forms using the programming tools provided with Outlook.

The following is a Visual Basic for Applications subroutine that automates Outlook. It creates a new Outlook mail message and attaches a file to the body of the message:

Sub NewMailWithAttachment ' The Outlook object library needs to be referenced Dim ol As Outlook.Application Dim NewMessage As Object Set ol = New Outlook.Application ' Create a new MailItem Set NewMessage = ol.CreateItem(olMailItem) ' Embed a file into the new message NewMessage.Attachments.Add "c:\autoexec.bat", olByValue ' Display the message NewMessage.Display End Sub

