Comments on: Pasting Excel Ranges in Outlook

By: Curious

Curious — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:02:00 +0000

I want to open an excel file on Excel startup. However, I do not want to save that file in XLSTART folder, nor do I want to open all the files in a specific folder. Is there an alternative? One of the alternative is to paste the shortcut in XLSTART. Are there any other ways?…Looking for some creative answers.

By: MCD

MCD — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:01:00 +0000

After a range is pasted into Outlook in both Rich Text or HTML, an option is created from the paste options button that appears in the lower right-hand side of what was pasted. From here you can select the match destination table style and it will create a grid, which can be edited per your preference. Plain text does not recognize tables, so that formatting is lost. As far as tabs are concerned in Excel, these already exist as the grid lines between cells (paste in Notepad to verify this,) so really is a moot consideration. On a side note, The Alt-Enter “space” does not have the same effect when pasted into plain text, but might lead to a solution to the original issue of placing a tab inside a cell.

By: Jon von der Heyden

Jon von der Heyden — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:00 +0000

I would never use this, but thought I'd see what I could do with paste special. The only way I could find was to use SendKeys (yuk!). And this also only works because I use Word as my email editor.

Option Explicit

Private Sub MyMailer()

Dim rng As Excel.Range

Dim outApp As Outlook.Application
Dim outMail As Outlook.MailItem

Set outApp = New Outlook.Application
Set outMail = outApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)

Set rng = Range("A1:C10")

With outMail
.To = "test"
.Subject = "test"
rng.Copy
.Display
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue("00:00:01")
SendKeys "%es{UP}" & Application.Rept("{UP}", 4) & "{ENTER}", True
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue("00:00:01")
SendKeys "%s"
End With

Finish:
Set outApp = Nothing
Set outMail = Nothing
Set rng = Nothing

End Sub

By: Doug Jenkins

Doug Jenkins — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:40:00 +0000

Using Excel 2007:

ActiveCell.Value = "this" & Chr(9) & "that" produces thisthat

Entering "this" & Char(9) & "that" produces thisthat

Entering this[tab]that (where [tab] = press tab key) in a text editor and copying and pasting produces this and that in two adjacent cells

Copying a tab character from a text editor and pasting selects two blank cells

Is this an Excel 2007 thing, or is there a setting somewhere?

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:49:00 +0000

The way I stick Tab into a cell is no better. Start > Run > Notepad. Hit the Tab key, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Back to Excel, Paste in the cell.

I too use Outlook, but I don't use plain text, or HTML. I use Rich Text wherever possible. When I paste a range, it comes out in a grid - beautiful.

By: fzz

fzz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:53:00 +0000

So this is a problem due to composing Plain Text e-mails in Outlook?

FWIW, copying a multiple column range in Excel then pasting as plain text into Lotus Notes produces the equivalent of your final result above. Nice to know Microsoft makes this much harder in Outlook. Just curios: there's no Paste Special command in Outlook?