Excel Can E-Mail Your Weekly Reports For You!

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Many times, in an office setting, you have an Excel spreadsheet that has to be sent to different departments on a weekly basis. Even if you have a distribution list setup in MS Outlook, it still takes some time to setup your e-mail and proof it before sending it out. Why not let MS Excel do it for you?

Follow the steps below to lighten your workload:

  1. Launch MS Excel if it is not already open.
     
  2. Open the workbook containing the report you want to send.
     
  3. Click ALT + F11.
     
  4. The Visual Basic Editor will open.
     
  5. In the Project-VBA Project pane, double-click ThisWorkbook.
     
  6. Go to Insert | Procedure.
     
  7. Click in the Name text box and enter WeeklyReportEmail.
     
  8. Click OK.
     
  9. At the prompt, enter the code below:
     
  10. Dim DistList As Variant
     
  11. DistList = Array("name1@company.com", "name2@company.com", "name3@company.com") ActiveWorkbook.Sendmail Recipients: = DistList
     
  12. Click ALT + Q.
     
  13. Click ALT + F8.
     
  14. Click WeeklyReportEmail in the Macro list.
     
  15. Click the Options button.
     
  16. In the CTRL+ box, enter m.
     
  17. Click OK.

When it is time to send the spreadsheet to everyone on your distribution list you simply open the workbook and click CTRL + M.

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