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I am copying excel content from Excel to the Outlook Email Body, and unlike many other users my problem is not that cell formatting is messed up, but rather that when copying any of the images from excel, they are pasted into outlook with a white cell behind the image's top left corner.

Attached a sample image with how it looks in Excel and then in Outlook.

I have spent hours trying to solve this including:

• change the format of the image (PNG/JPG/BMP)


• play around with resolution, image compression, move-and-size-with-cells option, etc.


• tried to manually copy the range into the outlook email body VS copying it via a macro which converts the worksheet-range into a html string and generates the email directly from excel

The last option, where I used VBA to generate the email from excel directly, exhibits the exact some problem as a manual copy & paste from excel. The problem only occurs around the area of images and the cells that are touched by the topleft corner of the image, no matter if those cells are regular cells or merged.

This leads me to believe that this is either an issue with my images/object (I replaced all images with shapes and had the same issue, or its bug in MS Office in when it comes to handling the copy & paste process of content with objects.

Would love to hear some opinions of you guys, I am at the end of my wit.

Thank you!

Also, here the function I use for copying the range to outlook.

Excel VBA

Option Explicit



Private Function RngToEmail(rng As Range, eTo As String, eSubject As String)

    Dim wbThis As Workbook, wbNew As Workbook

    Dim tempFileName As String, imgName As String, newPath As String



    '~~> Do not change "Myimg". This will be used to

    '~~> identify the images

    Dim imgPrefix As String: imgPrefix = "Myimg"



    '~~> This is the temp html file name.

    '~~> Do not change this as when you publish the

    '~~> html file, it will create a folder Temp_files

    '~~> to store the images

    Dim tmpFile As String: tmpFile = "Temp.Htm"



    Set wbThis = Workbooks(rng.Parent.Parent.Name)

    Set wbNew = Workbooks.Add



    '~~> Copy the relevant range to new workbook

    rng.Copy wbNew.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A:A")



    newPath = wbThis.Path & ""

    tempFileName = newPath & tmpFile



    '~~> Publish the image

    With wbNew.PublishObjects.Add(xlSourceRange, _

        tempFileName, "Sheet1", rng.Address, xlHtmlStatic, _

        imgPrefix, "")

        .Publish (True)

        .AutoRepublish = True

    End With



    '~~> Close the new file without saving

    wbNew.Close (False)



    '~~> Read the html file in a string in one go

    Dim MyData As String, strData() As String

    Dim i As Long

    Open tempFileName For Binary As #1

    MyData = Space$(LOF(1))

    Get #1, , MyData

    Close #1

    strData() = Split(MyData, vbCrLf)



    '~~> Loop through the file

    For i = LBound(strData) To UBound(strData)

        '~~> Here we will first get the image names

        If InStr(1, strData(i), "Myimg_", vbTextCompare) And InStr(1, strData(i), ".Png", vbTextCompare) Then

            '~~> Insert actual path to the images

            strData(i) = Replace(strData(i), "Temp_files/", newPath & "Temp_files")

        End If

    Next i



    '~~> Rejoin to get the new html string

    MyData = Join(strData, vbCrLf)



    '~~> Create the Email

    Dim OutApp As Object, OutMail As Object

    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)



    With OutMail

        .to = eTo

        .Subject = eSubject



        '~~> Set the body

        .HTMLBody = MyData



        '~~> Show the email. Change it to `.Send` to send it

        .Display

    End With



    '~~> Delete the temp file name

    Kill tempFileName

End Function



Sub Sample()

    RngToEmail ThisWorkbook.Sheets("FINAL").Range("A:F"), "someemail@someserver.com", "Some Subject"

End Sub

Do you insert picture to this cell? When testing on my Outlook 2016 version 1812, I also find the issue. The cell behind the picture would appear blank or wired when pasting to email body. I haven’t found related official articles and I’m not familiar with VBA code.

However, we can choose to paste as a picture in Paste Options to avoid this.