Formatting specific part of text string in VBA - vba

Question

I am in process of creating a macro that will save the current workbook, create a new outlook message and attach the file to the message. My macro does that but I can not format the text in the body of the email to my liking.
Dim OutApp As Object
Dim OutMail As Object
Dim sBody, Customer As String
ActiveWorkbook.Save
sBody = "All," & Chr(10) & Chr(10) & "Please Approve attached Request below for " & rType & "." _
& Chr(10) & Chr(10) & "Customer: " & customer & Chr(10)
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
On Error Resume Next
With OutMail
.to = recip
.CC = CCed
.BCC = ""
.subject = subject
.Body = sBody
.Attachments.Add ActiveWorkbook.FullName
.display
End With
On Error GoTo 0
End Sub
I want the following message to be displayed (with the format) in the email.
All,
Please Approve attached Request below for "rtype".
Customer: Stackoverflow
So, the word "customer" needs to be bold. I have tired multiple solutions but they do not work as this is creating an outlook mail object.
Any Help will be appreciated.
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Solution: To make the HTML tags work change the body type to html by
".HTMLBody". and you will be able to use HTML Tags. Kudos to Dick
Kusleika
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Answer 1

HTML tags do work. I don't know why you say they don't.
sBody = "All,<br /><br />Please Approve attached request for " & rType & ".<br /><br /><strong>Customer:</strong> " & customer & "<br />"
then instead of the .Body property, use .HTMLBody
.HTMLBody = sBody

Answer 2

you have a few options
1)use HTML like a few people have commented
2)put that text on a hidden sheet and format it as required then ref it to the body as a range e.g. .Body = sheets("hidden_Body").range("A1:B10")
3)of you can try using something like below (please note below is used for adding one wingding character into a string and would need to be modified to fit your purpose)
Sub Build_Wingdings(Sh As Worksheet, rng As Range)
Dim cur_L As Integer
cur_L = 1
Sheets("Word_Specifications").Range("BZ9").Copy
Sh.Range(rng.Address).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks _
:=False, Transpose:=False
Application.CutCopyMode = False
With Sheets("Word_Specifications")
.Select
For Each cell In .Range(.Range("Word_Standard_Start").Address, .Range("Word_Standard_Start").End(xlDown).Address)
If cell.value = "" Then
Else
L = Len(cell.value) + 1
With Sh.Range(rng.Address)
With .Characters(start:=cur_L, Length:=L).Font
.Name = "Arial"
.FontStyle = "Regular"
.Size = 9
.Bold = False
.Strikethrough = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
.OutlineFont = False
.Shadow = False
.Underline = xlUnderlineStyleNone
.ThemeColor = xlThemeColorLight1
.TintAndShade = 0
.ThemeFont = xlThemeFontNone
End With
cur_L = cur_L + L
If .value <> "" Then
add_Wingdings cur_L, 1, Sh, rng
cur_L = cur_L + 2
End If
End With
End If
Next
End With
End Sub
Sub add_Wingdings(start As Integer, Length As Integer, Sh As Worksheet, rng As Range)
With Sh.Range(rng.Address).Characters(start:=start, Length:=Length).Font
.Name = "Wingdings 3"
.FontStyle = "Regular"
.Size = 9
.Bold = False
.Strikethrough = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
.OutlineFont = False
.Shadow = False
.Underline = xlUnderlineStyleNone
.ThemeColor = xlThemeColorLight1
.TintAndShade = 0
.ThemeFont = xlThemeFontNone
End With
End Sub