Attachment.Delete method (Publisher)

Deletes an Attachment object from the Attachments collection of an email merge message.

Syntax

expression.Delete

expression A variable that represents an Attachment object.

Remarks

The Delete method performs an irreversible operation on the Attachments collection. It calls IUnknown.Release on the collection's reference to the Attachment object. If you have another reference to the attachment, you can still access its properties and methods, but you can never again associate it with any collection, because the Add method always creates a new object. Use the Set keyword to set your reference variable either to Nothing or to another attachment.

The final release of the Attachment object takes place when you assign your reference variable to Nothing, or when you call Delete, if you had no other reference. At this point the object is removed from memory. Attempting to gain access to a released object returns the Microsoft Collaboration Data Object error CdoE_INVALID_OBJECT.

When you delete a member of a collection, the collection is immediately refreshed, meaning that its Count property is reduced by one and its members are reindexed. To access the member that previously followed the deleted member in the collection, you must use its new index value.

To delete all attachments to the current email merge message, use the ClearAll method of the Attachments collection.

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro shows how to delete an attachment to the message in an email merge. The code deletes the attachment at the first index position in the Attachments collection and then prints the name of the deleted attachment and the number of current attachments to the message in the Immediate window.

Before running this code, ensure that there is at least one attachment to the current email merge message.

Public Sub Delete_Example() 
 
 Dim pubAttachments As Publisher.Attachments 
 Dim pubAttachment As Publisher.Attachment 
 
 Dim pubMailMerge As Publisher.MailMerge 
 Dim pubEmailMergeEnvelope As Publisher.EmailMergeEnvelope 
 
 Set pubMailMerge = ThisDocument.MailMerge 
 Set pubEmailMergeEnvelope = pubMailMerge.EmailMergeEnvelope 
 Set pubAttachments = pubEmailMergeEnvelope.Attachments 
 
 Set pubAttachment = pubAttachments(1) 
 Debug.Print pubAttachments.Count 
 Debug.Print pubAttachment.Name 
 
 pubAttachment.Delete 
 
End Sub

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