How to copy Subject Field contents into a mailto command?

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lionheart - 04 Dec 2007 20:42 GMT

I need help with how to copy the Subject Field contents automatically from
the Subject Field of an email and paste them into a mailto command in the
body of the email.
example...
To: joe@somecompany.com
From: fred@someothercompany.com
Subject: Proposal-4
Body...
Joe, email me at mailto:fred@someothercompany.com?subject=Proposal-4 when
you have reviewed this proposal.

Is there a way to make "Proposal-4" or whatever the contents of
"SubjectField" are be added into the mailto statement? Thanks in advance for
any help.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 04 Dec 2007 21:23 GMT

How are you creating the email message in the first place?

What you want to do could be achieve by a combination of mailmerge and some
VBA code similar to that in the article "Mail Merge to E-mail with
Attachments" at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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> the Subject Field of an email and paste them into a mailto command in the
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lionheart - 05 Dec 2007 14:05 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

I am creating the email message from within Filemaker, but the mailto
statement in the body will use html to populate an Outlook message. Is there
some command I can use to copy whatever is in the subject line down into the
body automatically. I need it to be automatic because the email is generated
automatically and the subject line is filled in by a script.

thanks

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