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    Organising Distribution List in Excel

    Hi there

    We have quite a complicated distribution list with emails of individuals/teams who need to receive emails about product sales. The list is stored in Excel. I wonder if there is a better way of organising it so that the email address can be easily copied and pasted into an email.

    The way it works at the moment is that if we are sending a report from sale of apples it need to go to individuals and core lists. These two never change. Then relevant people are included in the email depending on sales channel, region, whether these were eco or no eco apples etc. So for a report about online sale of eco apples in Europe packaged in plastic bag the email distribution list will be different to the one for wholesale sale of non eco apples sold in cardboard boxes in Asia.
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    The list needs to be user friendly and also cater to the fact that some lists are longer and some shorter.

    All suggestions are welcome.

    Thank you

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    Re: Organising Distribution List in Excel

    Of course the Apple sales would need to go to the Core list!

    Not sure why you would want to use a copy and paste into an email address when a bit of VBA code could generate the reports you want and email them to any list you'd like with the simple press of a button (Assuming all the data required to generate the reports is contained within the worksheet?).

    I'm happy to help you, but I'd need a more definitive requirement of how to generate the reports and which reports go where.

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    Re: Organising Distribution List in Excel

    Hi

    Unfortunately, the actual report is generated by a different system not linked to excel. We only use excel for storing and updating the distribution list.

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    Re: Organising Distribution List in Excel

    Doesn't really matter where the report is generated. As long as you know its name and you can tell me how to determine which file/report goes to which email distribution, the rest is just a bit of VBA.

    Can you attach the workbook you already have with your distribution lists?

    You may want to cut it down in size and use 'dummy' email addresses ('[email protected]' for example)

    The important thing is, that the 'format' is the same so that you can seamlessly incorporate any code/macro I develop into your 'real' spreadsheet and it is clear which report goes to which personal email and/or which distribution list

    Q: Are the distribution lists already setup in Outlook or are they lists of emails determined in your workbook? I'll probably have more questions I haven't thought of yet.
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