Shami's Blog » VBA http://blog.al-shami.net A Mushroom A Day Keeps The Koopas Away Thu, 13 May 2010 06:15:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Signatures with date fields in Microsoft Outlook http://blog.al-shami.net/index.php/signatures-with-date-fields-in-microsoft-outlook/ http://blog.al-shami.net/index.php/signatures-with-date-fields-in-microsoft-outlook/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:19 +0000 Mohammad Al-Shami http://blog.al-shami.net/?p=8 Ok, so today our CEO said he wanted everybody to stamp their emails with the sending date. It’s very simple to just add the date manually, but as you know, a good engineer is a lazy engineer. So this is how I did it:

Add “$$MYDATE$$” to your signature but without the quotes, then add this simple script to VBA:


Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
    If Item.Class = olMail Then
        Dim Signature As String
        Signature = Format(Now(), "d/m/yyyy")
        Item.HTMLBody = Replace(Item.HTMLBody, "$$MYDATE$$", Signature, , 1)
    End If
End Sub

This should do it. This script will replace $$MYDATE$$ with the current date as soon as you hit the “Send” button. So you will still see “$$MYDATE$$” while you’re typing the message.

Just make sure you lower the macro security to medium.

Hope that helps

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