Delete selected text from incoming emails

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I am not sure I understand that.

If I write this:

If Item.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain Then

b = lcase(Item.Body)
OldText = Replace(Item.body, "Text to Remove" & vbCrLf, "")
NewText = ""

Item.body = b
End If

which is the code currently not working as it should, where would I add b = Item.body?
 
Correct - i had not considered this
b = lcase(Item.Body)
Item.body = b

you definitely need to use
b = Item.Body
Item.body = b

which means the "text to remove." need to be the same case as it is in the message. Test it with just text, no ending space or new line: "Text to remove." not "Text to remove. " or "Text to remove. " & vbcrlf

Also... others ways to reference breaks is with chr(10), chr(13), or vbNewLine

oh, and don't forget to save changes. Item.save
 
Correct - i had not considered this
b = lcase(Item.Body)
Item.body = b

you definitely need to use
b = Item.Body
Item.body = b

which means the "text to remove." need to be the same case as it is in the message. Test it with just text, no ending space or new line: "Text to remove." not "Text to remove. " or "Text to remove. " & vbcrlf

Also... others ways to reference breaks is with chr(10), chr(13), or vbNewLine

This worked on my plain text message to remove extra lines at the top - i added it as 3rd replace in the plain text part.
OldText = vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "words in first line"
NewText = "words in first line"
b = Replace(b, OldText, NewText, , , vbTextCompare)


oh, and don't forget to save changes. Item.save
 
I find it hard to work out quite what changes you are advising me to make, so here is the full amended code - which produces exactly the same result - nothing changes!

If Item.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain Then

b = Item.body
OldText = "Text to remove."
NewText = ""
b = Replace(b, OldText, NewText, , , vbTextCompare)

Item.body = b
End If

Item.Save

Set Item = Nothing

I am sure I am missing something very simple, but for the life of me I cannot see what.
 
The something simple was to close and restart Outlook!

Now it all seems to be working as it should. I shall keep an eye on it for the next few days to be sure.
 
Oh, yeah... you do often need to kick start the application start up macros for changes to take effect (especially after an error). I'm so used to doing it with every change, that i forget to mention it.
 
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