Sub SendOutlookMessages()'Dimension variables.
    Dim OL As Object, MailSendItem As Object
    Dim W As Object
    Dim MsgTxt As String, SendFile As String
    Dim ToRangeCounter As Variant
    
    'Identifies Word file to send
    SendFile = Application.GetOpenFilename(Title:="Select MS Word " & _
    "file to mail, then click 'Open'", buttontext:="Send", _
    MultiSelect:=False)'Starts Word session
    Set W = GetObject(SendFile)'Pulls text from file for message body
    MsgTxt = W.Range(Start:=W.Paragraphs(1).Range.Start, _
    End:=W.Paragraphs(W.Paragraphs.Count).Range.End)'Ends Word session
    Set W = Nothing
    
    'Starts Outlook session
    Set OL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set MailSendItem = OL.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    
    ToRangeCounter = 0
    
    'Identifies number of recipients for To list.
    For Each xCell In ActiveSheet.Range(Range("tolist"), _
    Range("tolist").End(xlToRight))
    ToRangeCounter = ToRangeCounter + 1
    Next xCell
    
    If ToRangeCounter = 256 Then ToRangeCounter = 1
    
    'Creates message
    With MailSendItem
    .Subject = ActiveSheet.Range("subjectcell").Text
    .Body = MsgTxt
    
    'Creates "To" list
    For Each xRecipient In Range("tolist").Resize(1, ToRangeCounter)
    RecipientList = RecipientList & ";" & xRecipient
    Next xRecipient
    
    .To = RecipientList
    .Send
    End With
    
    'Ends Outlook session
    Set OL = Nothing
    
End Sub