RSSToday's entry in the lazy programmer series involves tweaking the code sample at Attachment: Print received attachments immediately so that it works with 4-character extensions and also with 64-bit Outlook 2010 or 2013. (The original macro works with 32-bit Outlook).
For third party add-ins and utilities, see Print Email (and Attachments) on Arrival
The code looks at the last 4 characters, including the period and will work as long as you use 4 characters in each extension we want to check.
Case "xlsx", "docx", ".pdf", ".doc", ".xls"
To use the macro with 64-bit Outlook, you need to add PtrSafe to Declare:
Private Declare PtrSafe Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _
Print received attachments immediately code sample
Original code was written for 32-bit Outlook and 3 character file extensions.
To use, open the VBA editor using Alt+F11 and paste the following code into ThisOutlookSession. Edit the code as needed then click in the Application_Startup() macro and press Run button (F8). This starts the macro without the need to restart Outlook.
' Written by Michael Bauer, vboffice.net
' http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?mnu=2&lang=en&smp=3&cmd=showitem
' use Declare PtrSafe Function with 64-bit Outlook
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias _
"ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, _
ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Private WithEvents Items As Outlook.Items
Private Sub Application_Startup()
Dim Ns As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim Folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Set Ns = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Folder = Ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set Items = Folder.Items
End Sub
Private Sub Items_ItemAdd(ByVal Item As Object)
If TypeOf Item Is Outlook.MailItem Then
PrintAttachments Item
End If
End Sub
Private Sub PrintAttachments(oMail As Outlook.MailItem)
On Error Resume Next
Dim colAtts As Outlook.Attachments
Dim oAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim sFile As String
Dim sDirectory As String
Dim sFileType As String
sDirectory = "D:\Attachments\"
Set colAtts = oMail.Attachments
If colAtts.Count Then
For Each oAtt In colAtts
' This code looks at the last 4 characters in a filename
sFileType = LCase$(right$(oAtt.FileName, 4))
Select Case sFileType
' Add additional file types below
Case ".xls", ".doc", "docx"
sFile = sDirectory & oAtt.FileName
oAtt.SaveAsFile sFile
ShellExecute 0, "print", sFile, vbNullString, vbNullString, 0
End Select
Next
End If
End Sub
