Add, save, and open Outlook-item attachments
Many common Outlook operations center on attachments—adding them to messages and other items, opening them, and saving them as system files. Let’s explore how Outlook programmers work with attachments and look at the Scripting Runtime programming library, which comes in handy when working with file attachments.
Adding an Attachment
Every Outlook item, except the yellow-sticky-note NoteItem object, supports an Attachments collection. Like other collections, the Attachments collection supports an Add method to attach a new file, an Item method to help enumerate the attachments in the collection, and a Remove method to delete an attachment from the item. However, the Remove method doesn’t work in all versions of Outlook, so I recommend avoiding it.
When you attach a file to an Outlook item, you must provide either the path to a file on your system or an Outlook item object, such as a ContactItem or MailItem. Other parameters are optional. Unfortunately, the Help file for Outlook 2002 displays the details of the AddressEntries.Add method instead of the Attachments.Add method. You can find information about Attachments.Add at http://support.microsoft.com/support/office/inprodhlp/outlook/olmthaddattachmentsobj.asp, but this Web page doesn’t tell the whole story.
The basic syntax for adding a file as an attachment to a new Outlook message looks like this:
Set objOL = _
CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objMsg = _
objOL.CreateItem(olMailItem)
Set objAttachments = _
objMsg.Attachments
Set objAtt = _
objAttachments.Add("c:\myfile.doc")
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