thank you for the reply.

I have seen a couple of examples of this, where the variable is called in vbrun, and I've tried a couple variations to no effect. This one doesn't work either, I get errors on the line assigning the variable and the vbrun line.

I know zip about vb but am attempting to automate an email using outlook. I have pulled several examples of code, and found 1 that works, except I cant seem to get it to accept a variable in the message body: let>var1="sample variable" VBSTART Sub SendOutlookMail Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlo...