export table to outlook from excel that is blackberry friendly

Question

So I gathered from different places on the internet some code to export a table into outlook and send it out automatically and have just noticed that the email is not really

Answer 1

Background to answer

The objective of the question was to be able to get an Excel table sent in an email that was readable on a Blackberry. There were a number of red herrings before the cause of the problem was identified as Excel's PublishObjects. The issue might have been the large number of unnecessary CSS formats or the sizing of cells and fonts in points but, whatever the issue, the HTML could not be rendered correctly by the Blackberry's display engine.

I created a fairly simple piece of VBA code to create an HTML table from a range. It copied values, bold, italic, font colour, background colour and column widths from Excel to the HTML table. Although the first version did not meet macutan's full requirements, it demonstrated that the approach was viable: an HTML/CSS table with a minimum of formatting was displayed correctly and attractively on a Blackberry.

As I made further enhancements to meet the macutan's requirements, I discovered the same problem existed with other smart phones and there was a general need for such a routine. I continue to develop the routine with the intention that the final version copies all the Excel formatting to the HTML table.

The code plus the instructions soon exceeded Stack Overflow's limit of 30,000 characters. I passed new versions to macutan via email. The documentation from the code module is below. If you look at my profile there is an email address. I will forward copies of my code on request.

  ' Converts a rectangular range within an Excel worksheet to an Html document.

  ' RangeToHtml is the only routine in this module designed to be called from
  ' outside the module.  A typical call might be:
  '     Call RangeToHtml(Worksheets("Data"), 1, 1, RowBottom, ColRight, _
  '                                     BorderStyle=Separate, CellPadding=.25)

  ' The parameters of RangeToHtml are:
  '  * Wsht         A worksheet within an open workbook
  '  * RowTop       \
  '  * ColumnLeft   | Together these specify a rectangular range within
  '  * RowBottom    | Wsht.  This is the range to be converted to Html.
  '  * ColumnRight  /
  '  * Options      Zero or more strings of the form OptionName=OptionValue
  '                 specifying which, if any, of the available high-level,
  '                 formatting options are required.

  ' Individual options are checked.  "OptionName" must be the name of a documented
  ' option and "OptionValue" must be a permitted value for that option. No space is
  ' permitted before or after the equals sign. OptionNames and OptionValues are
  ' case insensitive; that is "BorderStyle=Collapse" and "borderstyle=collapse" are
  ' both acceptable and have the same meaning. However, options are not tested for
  ' duplicates. You can, for example, specify:
  '     "BorderStyle=Separate", "BorderStyle=Collapse".
  ' In this example, "BorderStyle=Separate" will overwrite the default collapse style
  ' and then "BorderStyle=Collapse" will overwrite "BorderStyle=Separate"

  ' The available options are:
  '   * BorderStyle=Collapse
  '   * BorderStyle=Separate
  '       With Html/Css, the cells of a table can touch so there appears to be a single
  '       border between adjacent cells or they can be separated by a small gap so it is
  '       obvious that each cell has its own border. If no BorderStyle is specified,
  '       "BorderStyle=Collapse" is the default which means cell borders touch.
  '   * CellPad=.nn
  '       If this option is omitted or if "CellPad=0" is specified, there is a minimal gap
  '       between the cell border and its contents. If the option is, for example,
  '       "CellPad=.25" then will be a gap of .25 ems around the cell contents. An "em" is
  '       a measure of length equal to the height of the cell's font.
  '   * TableWidth=nnn
  '       If this option is omitted or if "TableWidth=100" is specified, the table occupies
  '       the entire available display width.  If the option is, for example, "TableWidth=50",
  '       the table will occupy 50% of the available display width. "nnn" can be greater than
  '       100 if you wish the user to scroll to see the entire table.

  ' The table below lists the formats handled at cell and or in-cell level. The default value
  ' column is explained below.
  '   CELL-LEVEL            IN-CELL           DEFAULT VALUE
  '   bold                  bold              false
  '   italic                italic            false
  '   strikethrough         strikethrough     false
  '   underline single      underline single  no underline
  '   underline double      underline double  no underline
  '   underline accounting                    no underline
  '   font colour           font colour       black
  '   background colour                       white
  '   horizontal alignment                    left for string; right for numbers and dates
  '   font size             font size         11 or as set as the Excel application level
  '   font name             font name         Calibri or as set as the Excel application level
  '   vertical alignment                      bottom

  ' There is no Html/Css equivalent to double or accouting underlining so both are
  ' converted to single underline.

  ' Each format is checked for every cell within the range. Formatting information is only
  ' output to the Html/Css if a format has a non-default value so the output is as clean and
  ' crisp as possible. You need to be careful about font name and size. Many change the name
  ' and size for a worksheet but the routine has no access to the worksheet's standard name
  ' and size; it is the Excel standard that determines the default.

  ' Html/Css does not handle wrap text at the cell level.  If no Excel cell has wrap text set
  ' then the routine does not output any column size information and columns widths are
  ' entirely determined by the receiver's browser.  If any cell has wrap text set then column
  ' widths are set by percentage so their relationship depends on the Excel column widths.

  ' Excel borders are not checked so any borders within the worksheet will not be converted.
  ' Instead every cell is given a thin, grey border so ther Html looks like a default
  ' Excel worksheet.

  ' If the cell value is numeric, the number format is checked for colour names. If
  ' appropriate, the colour specified in the number format will overwrite the cell's font
  ' colour.  See UpdateHtmlFontColourForNumericFormat for more information.

  ' Excel's default vertical alignment is "bottom" but Html/Css's is "center". If a cell
  ' is a single line, the difference will not be apparent but the Html/Css will be bigger
  ' than necessary because of "vertical-align:bottom" for every cell. It may be worth
  ' setting every cell's vertical alignment to "center".

  ' Merged cells are converted to the Html equivalent.

  ' Most of the work is performed by the macro HtmlStyleTable. This routine returns two
  ' strings, Style and Table, which RangeToHtml wraps in an Html envelope to create the
  ' document returned as a string to the caller.  Style and Table will look like:

  ' Style:
  '      table {border-collapse:collapse;}
  '      td {border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#BFBFBF;}
  '      td.backclr-0000FF {background-color:#0000FF;}
  '      td.backclr-D7EAF4 {background-color:#D7EAF4;}
  '         :   :   :
  '      span.bold {font-weight:bold;}
  '      span.fontclr-0070C0 {color:#0070C0;}
  '    The first two entries in Style are fixed . All other entries depend on
  '    the formats that appear in the worksheets. The td.xxx entries are used for
  '    cell-level formats. The span.xxx entries are used for in-cell formats.
  '    "In-cell formats" refers to part of a cell value being, for example, bold
  '    and part being non-bold.
  ' Table:
  '     <table class="bord-collapse">
  '       <tr>
  '         <td rowspan=2 style="width:29.41%" class="back-D7F4EA bold hAlign-center fontsize-095 fontname-Arial">Product</td>
  '         <td rowspan=2 style="width:11.76%" class="back-D7F4EA bold hAlign-center fontsize-095 fontname-Arial">Position</td>

  '   Mar12  I coded something similar in response to a Stack Overflow question. The main
  '          difference is that with the earlier version the formatting styles (for example:
  '          "background-color:#D7EAF4;") were all within the individual TD elements' STYLE
  '          attribute. I believe having all the styles in a STYLE element and references
  '          them by name in the TD elements gives a cleaner document.
  '   ?????  Having answered the Stack Overflow question to the satisfaction of the OP, I
  '          continued developing the routine. It quickly became clear that a full
  '          conversion was not practical in VBA so I converted my code to VB before
  '          continuing. I have quite an attractive VB version but it is slower than I would
  '          like. There are many complaints on the internet about the speed of access to
  '          Excel from VB and some bizarre solutions. I discovered a different approach
  '          which meant a program could obtain a lot of information about a worksheet in a
  '          single call to the InterOp. That information was provided as a string for which
  '          the documentation was poor and often wrong. However, I did manage to decode the
  '          string. Sometime, I must bring all my separate routines together in a single
  '          program to give a fast, complete conversion.
  '   Jun16  A request for a copy of my original code meant I searched my archives for that
  '          code. I did not find that code but I realised I could write a better routine.
  '          All routines in this module were coded and debugged in stages. The first
  '          version handled three cell-level formats. The final version handled more
  '          formats at both cell and in-cell level.
  '   Aug16  Added HtmlStyleTable options.

Answer 2

Inside your With block, set the BodyFormat Property to olFormatRichText.

With OutMail
.BodyFormat = olFormatRichText
' rest of your code

Let us know if that works.

Edit:

Setting the HTMLBody Property will convert the email to HTML. If you set the BodyFormat Property to olFormatRichText then you would need to use the Body Property, which would eliminate the possibility of using HTML.

So I don't see any way you could both set up the email with a HTML table and send it as Rich Text format.