Programmatically change properties in email body in Outlook with VBA - vba

Question

I have an email ready to be sent in Outlook 2013
I want to scan the body of the email for bold text (i.e., bold characters) and change its color to red
(nice to have) Exclude from the macro the signature
I put together the code below but still not working. Any ideas?
Public Sub FormatSelectedText()
Dim objItem As Object
Dim objInsp As Outlook.Inspector
' Add reference to Word library
' in VBA Editor, Tools, References
Dim objWord As Word.Application
Dim objDoc As Word.Document
Dim objSel As Word.Selection
On Error Resume Next
'Reference the current Outlook item
Set objItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
If Not objItem Is Nothing Then
If objItem.Class = olMail Then
Set objInsp = objItem.GetInspector
If objInsp.EditorType = olEditorWord Then
Set objDoc = objInsp.WordEditor
Set objWord = objDoc.Application
Set objSel = objWord.Selection
Set objChar = Characters.Selection
' replace the With block with your code
With objChar
' Formatting code goes here
'.Font.Size = 18
If .Font.Bold = True Then
.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
End If
.Font.Color = wdColorRed
'.Font.Italic = True
'.Font.Name = "Arial"
End With
For Each Char In Characters.Selection
If Char.Font.Bold Then
Char.Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 255) 'TextRGBTmp
End If
Next Char
For Each Char In Characters.Selection
If Not Char.Font.Bold And Char.Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 255) Then
Char.Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 0)
End If
Next Char
End If
End If
End If
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objWord = Nothing
Set objSel = Nothing
Set objInsp = Nothing
End Sub
This is a follow up to question: Programmatically change font properties in email body

Answer 1

first of all: don't use On Error Resume Next when you're trying to debug your code. It makes your life harder.
second: use Option Explicit at the beginning of the module. With that option enabled, VBA will show you every variable that's not initialized (some bugs only occur from misspellings).
I've corrected your code, so it works for me:
Public Sub FormatSelectedText()
Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application ' i used this because im working in MS Access
Dim objItem As Object
Dim objInsp As Outlook.Inspector
' Add reference to Word library
' in VBA Editor, Tools, References
Dim objWord As Word.Application
Dim objDoc As Word.Document
Dim objSel As Word.Selection
Dim objChar As Object
Dim Char As Object
'Reference the current Outlook item
Set objOutlook = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
Set objItem = objOutlook.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
If Not objItem Is Nothing Then
If objItem.Class = olMail Then
Set objInsp = objItem.GetInspector
If objInsp.EditorType = olEditorWord Then
Set objDoc = objInsp.WordEditor
Set objWord = objDoc.Application
Set objSel = objWord.Selection
Set objChar = objSel.Characters ' this wasn't initialized
' replace the With block with your code
' With objChar ' you don't Need this block because objChar is an array and it throws an error when you try to use this code on the whole objChar object
' ' Formatting code goes here
' '.Font.Size = 18
' If .Font.Bold = True Then
' .Font.color = wdColorBlue
' End If
' .Font.color = wdColorRed
' '.Font.Italic = True
' '.Font.Name = "Arial"
' End With
For Each Char In objSel.Characters
If Char.Font.Bold Then
Char.Font.color = rgb(255, 0, 0) 'TextRGBTmp (the rgb was filled backwards, so the text became blue. i fixed it.
End If
Next Char
' the code of the second For Each was not neccessary.
End If
End If
End If
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objWord = Nothing
Set objSel = Nothing
Set objInsp = Nothing
End Sub