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Need a time based reminder
Dear all,
I have designed a service certificate in Excel and am issuing it to customers. The certificates need renewing after a year. Once issued I save them all in a particular folder on the hard disk. I probably issue about 400 of these throughout the year. Now, is there a way for some auto/prompt TWO WEEKS before a certificate is ONE year old so that I can contact the customer and arrange a visit. Many thanks in advance Bina |
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Need a time based reminder
i need something similar, so i use a combination between excel
conditional formatting & windows task manager. i enter the original date of certification, then use formulas to enter the next three certification dates. those are conditionally formatted to turn a color when they are within 2 weeks of that date of certification. then i use windows task manager to automatically open the document at a specific time every two weeks. then i can see which ones are colored (need to be done). sometimes none of them are colored. since you have so many (400+), you could probably have an excel 2007 auto_open macro sort them by color so the colored ones are at the top of the spreadsheet (i believe 07 can now sort by color). just an idea, works for me. :) susan On Aug 27, 8:11*am, BinaH57 wrote: Dear all, I have designed a service certificate in Excel and am issuing it to customers. The certificates need renewing after a year. Once issued I save them all in a particular folder on the hard disk. I probably issue about 400 of these throughout the year. Now, is there a way for some auto/prompt TWO WEEKS before a certificate is ONE year old so that I can contact the customer and arrange a visit. Many thanks in advance Bina |
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susan,
Thakns a million. A very creative solution indeed. will try it and feedback. Regards, Bina "Susan" wrote: i need something similar, so i use a combination between excel conditional formatting & windows task manager. i enter the original date of certification, then use formulas to enter the next three certification dates. those are conditionally formatted to turn a color when they are within 2 weeks of that date of certification. then i use windows task manager to automatically open the document at a specific time every two weeks. then i can see which ones are colored (need to be done). sometimes none of them are colored. since you have so many (400+), you could probably have an excel 2007 auto_open macro sort them by color so the colored ones are at the top of the spreadsheet (i believe 07 can now sort by color). just an idea, works for me. :) susan On Aug 27, 8:11 am, BinaH57 wrote: Dear all, I have designed a service certificate in Excel and am issuing it to customers. The certificates need renewing after a year. Once issued I save them all in a particular folder on the hard disk. I probably issue about 400 of these throughout the year. Now, is there a way for some auto/prompt TWO WEEKS before a certificate is ONE year old so that I can contact the customer and arrange a visit. Many thanks in advance Bina |
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