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Send Email from Excel with Office Scripts & Power Automate

Published on Mar 21, 2023 in Automation, Learn Excel, Office Scripts, Power Automate
Send Email from Excel with Office Scripts & Power Automate

Do you have an Excel report or graphs that need to be emailed to various people every month? We can use Excel automation features to do this task quite easily. The inspiration – A client request for Excel Email Solution The idea for this came from a recent project I did for a client. They […]

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Hui’s Calendar Tool (as Borrowed from Chandoo)

Published on Apr 7, 2014 in Automation, Huis, Posts by Hui, VBA Macros
Hui’s Calendar Tool (as Borrowed from Chandoo)

Today we take a look at an exercise in how to develop a simple Calendar selection tool for your worksheets without using complex VBA Calendar Controls.

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Using Arrays To Update Table Columns

Published on Sep 16, 2013 in Automation, Excel Howtos, VBA Macros

Using Arrays To Update Table Columns We are creating a lot of reports everyday and these reports contain a lot of data which is presented in various styles as per the requirements. The data that allows us to create the reports is usually referred as raw data and in most of the cases is stored […]

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Excel Project Risk Map Generator – using VBA

Published on May 28, 2013 in Automation, Project Management, VBA Macros
Excel Project Risk Map Generator – using VBA

We all have some projects to manage every now and then and there are needs of various trackers that help us in gauging the progress of the same. One of the most important things are heat maps that quickly help us in visually displaying the names of the projects that need special attention and resolve issues that are impacting them.

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VBA Move data from one sheet to multiple sheets

Published on May 14, 2012 in Automation, Excel Howtos, Learn Excel, VBA Macros
VBA Move data from one sheet to multiple sheets

Suresh sent an email with interesting problem.

There is one data entry sheet where all the data needs will be entered, however once done we want the data to be stored separately in multiple sheets designated by the Employee code.

In this article we will learn how to use VBA to help in resolving the problem Suresh was facing at work.

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Send mails using Excel VBA and Outlook

Published on Apr 23, 2012 in Automation, Excel Howtos, Learn Excel, VBA Macros
Send mails using Excel VBA and Outlook

Ever wondered how we can use Excel to send emails thru Outlook? In this article we well learn how to use VBA and Microsoft Outlook to send emails with your reports as attachment.

Scenario: We have an excel based reporting template. We want to update this template using VBA code to create a static version and email it to a list of people. We will define the recipient list in a separate sheet.

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Consolidate data from different excel files (VBA)

Published on Apr 9, 2012 in Automation, Excel Howtos, VBA Macros
Consolidate data from different excel files (VBA)

Last week, we learned how to use SQL and query data inside Excel. This week, lets talk about how we can use VBA to consolidate multiple data sheets from different workbooks into one single worksheet.

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Using Excel As Your Database

Published on Apr 2, 2012 in Automation, Excel Howtos, VBA Macros
Using Excel As Your Database

Often I have thought, if I could have write “Select EmployeeName From Sheet Where EmployeeID=123” and use this on my excel sheet, my life would be simpler. So today we will learn how to do this.

People spend a lot of time thinking whether to use Excel as their database or not. Eventually they start using Access or SQL Server etc.

Today we will learn how to use Excel as a Database and how we to use SQL statements to get what we want. We will learn how to build a form like above.

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Putting It All Together – Our First VBA Application [Part 4 of 5 – Excel VBA Crash Course]

Published on Sep 2, 2011 in Automation, VBA Macros
Putting It All Together – Our First VBA Application [Part 4 of 5 – Excel VBA Crash Course]

In part 4 of our VBA Crash Course, we are going to create our very first VBA application using what we learned so far.

We will take the “We Are Nuts” example and create a daily sales tracker application using all the things you have learned so far. You can download the example VBA workbook and play with it to learn better.

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Automating Repetitive Tasks

Automating Repetitive Tasks

Over at Newton Excel Bach I spotted the Dynamically Defined Dancing Pendulums. Doug had used Strand7 for the animation.

I thought I could do that in Excel and did.

This post demonstrates some of some basic VBA techniques used to simplify repetitive tasks used during the construction of the project.
For a full project description visit Excel Hero.com.

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