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some help or direction on using excel
cutting to the chase. what i'm trying to do is i have a report that i import
from one program to an excel spreadsheet, based on the information in that report i need to be able to send email notifications to people on the report to make sure they are going to be able to meet their deadline. the report gives me a code for the persons name and i have a vlookup function i built to turn that code into the persons name. I dont need to send the report to everyone. just those people who are close to missing their deadline. my fields are something like "ID", "location", "window start", "window end", "project". the start and end fields are in "MM/dd/yy hh:mm am/pm" format what i have so far is when i past the report into my spreadsheet i can filter it by "window end" to see if anyone is close to missing their deadline. those are the people i want to send email reminders to, it is easy enough to do this manually but since we have multiple projects going with multiple people it has to be run many times a day and i would like to automate as much as possible. what i want to send to them is just something like "hey 'name' your project is supposed to be finnished by 'window end' are you going to be able to make it? i tried using a mail merge document because that was the simplest way i could figure, but i would like to stream line it so that if i am on vacation or they move someone else to my position its easy for anyone to do. any help would be appreciated. |
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some help or direction on using excel
All you ever need to know about emailing from Excel can be found at Ron de
Bruin's site. http://www.rondebruin.nl/sendmail.htm Note the free Sendmail Add-in to make your life easier. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 27 May 2010 19:58:00 -0700, KC wrote: cutting to the chase. what i'm trying to do is i have a report that i import from one program to an excel spreadsheet, based on the information in that report i need to be able to send email notifications to people on the report to make sure they are going to be able to meet their deadline. the report gives me a code for the persons name and i have a vlookup function i built to turn that code into the persons name. I dont need to send the report to everyone. just those people who are close to missing their deadline. my fields are something like "ID", "location", "window start", "window end", "project". the start and end fields are in "MM/dd/yy hh:mm am/pm" format what i have so far is when i past the report into my spreadsheet i can filter it by "window end" to see if anyone is close to missing their deadline. those are the people i want to send email reminders to, it is easy enough to do this manually but since we have multiple projects going with multiple people it has to be run many times a day and i would like to automate as much as possible. what i want to send to them is just something like "hey 'name' your project is supposed to be finnished by 'window end' are you going to be able to make it? i tried using a mail merge document because that was the simplest way i could figure, but i would like to stream line it so that if i am on vacation or they move someone else to my position its easy for anyone to do. any help would be appreciated. |
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