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VBA: How to get a Range of Numbers from a List

ListToRange() Function

So I’ve finally reached that point where I’m writing Macros well enough to accomplish simple tasks, but the results are just not pretty to look at. One of my macros returns a list of numbers associated with some data in a worksheet that looks like this:

, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 34, 35, 36, 37

Kind of gross, right? I want a to have a concise list. And DEAR GOD, you’d think writing the logic to get 1-5, 7, 10-12, 34-37 would be breeze.

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VBA: How to Auto-Generate Personalized Emails in Excel

An Outlook VBA Tutorial

I work one of those weird jobs where the company still uses Outlook. I’m a big fan of Gmail and Google Docs, but I really like having the option of VBAing my emails.

Say, for instance, I want to send the same email to multiple people. I don’t want to put them all in a single email thread though—inevitably someone will hit Reply All, then someone else will hit Reply All, then someone else will get curmudgeonly over having a huge email chain clogging their feed.

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