If you have to create and send an email automatically, the following method might help.

I have not tested it with HTML yet, but will do that at some point.

The method requires MS Outlook to be installed, since it is automating Outlook  in order to create an email with attachment.

Last Updated: 05 January 2018

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The below snippet will provide you with a systems full user name.

Source Code

' @Author - Alexander Bolte
' @ChangeDate - 2014-10-13
' @Description - Returning the system user name.
Public Function getFullUserName() As String
    Dim WSHnet  As Object
    Dim UserFullName As String
    Dim userName As String
    Dim UserDomain As String
    Dim objUser As Object
    
    Set WSHnet = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
    userName = WSHnet.userName
    UserDomain = WSHnet.UserDomain
    Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & UserDomain & "/" & userName & ",user")
    UserFullName = objUser.FullName
    
    Set WSHnet = Nothing
    Set objUser = Nothing
    
    getFullUserName = UserFullName
End Function

Referenced APIs

Since the source is using late binding it is not necessary to set a reference in the VBA Editor for a specific version of the referenced API named "WScript".

Last Updated: 13 October 2014

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Handling of Date values can become very annoying. Especially, if Excel always thinks it knows better than the programmer or user *sigh*! Automation is meant to help people, not mess up their work.

In order to help me at least displaying date values in the correct format I implemented a little function to get a pattern string based on a users system locale settings.

' @Author - Alexander Bolte
' @Change Date - 2013-12-14
' @Description - Determines the date format of the system the application is running on.
' The Excel application is getting the date seperator and the format of date values
' from the systems locale settings.
' @Returns - A String holding literals for Day (dd), Month (mm) and Year (yyyy)
' in the order corresponding the systems locale setting separated using the locales date separator.
Function getDateFormat() As String
    Dim dateFormat As String
    Dim datOrder As Integer
    Dim datSeparator As String
    
On Error GoTo err_handler:
    
    datOrder = Application.International(xlDateOrder)
    datSeparator = Application.International(xlDateSeparator)
    
    If datOrder = 0 Then
        dateFormat = "mm" & datSeparator & "dd" & datSeparator & "yyyy"
    ElseIf datOrder = 1 Then
        dateFormat = "dd" & datSeparator & "mm" & datSeparator & "yyyy"
    ElseIf datOrder = 2 Then
        dateFormat = "yyyy" & datSeparator & "mm" & datSeparator & "dd"
    End If
    
err_handler:
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        Err.Clear
    End If
    getDateFormat = dateFormat
End Function

Last Updated: 25 July 2015

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