Macros

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Fri 20 Oct 2017, 15:47 Delegate Tom said...

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Macros

How can record a macro that PDF's an excel report and load it into an email, and then if possible have that link to a template email sending to the same person each month with generic text in the body of the email.

Mon 23 Oct 2017, 11:22 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Macros

Hi Tom,

Thank you for the forum question.

Unfortunately the macro recorder in Excel has limitations. You can only record what you are doing in Excel worksheets and Excel Workbooks. You cannot control Outlook with the macro recorder in Excel.

If you have VBA knowledge you can write a code which can do exactly what you want.

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Excel tip:

Ctrl+d's double life

Suppose I have a formula in B1 that I wish to copy into B2:B10. I can select B1:B10 then press Ctrl+d to copy the formula down the selected range. Users generally ignore this shortcut in favour of double-clicking on the fill handle to copy down, but Ctrl+d is useful sometimes particularly when there is no data in surrounding columns to guide to how far the double-click method should copy formulae.

Ctrl+d has another use though. When I use the drawing toolbar to draw objects such as Text Boxes, Rectangles and Ovals onto a worksheet, Ctrl+d makes an instant duplicate of selected shapes. For example, I need five Text Boxes the same size. I draw one Text box and adjust it to the size I want, select it, then press Ctrl+d four times to get four identical copies.

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