Adding Popup Reminders in Excel 2010 using VBA

[blairski10]

I have a Excel based Dashboard / Report that needs to be updated with new data sets on a number of specific dates.

Is there a way where I can create a VBA macro that will deliver a Popup Reminder when I open the file if one of the dates in my range of information equals the =TODAY() function? And if the value is TRUE, can I insert specific text to reminder based on the information in the Cell directly to the right?

Here's what I'm thinking of creating

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: left"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]=TODAY()[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]11/15/15[/TD]
[TD]Update Dashboard with new financial data[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4/1/16[/TD]
[TD]Update Dashboard with new subscription information[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]7/1/16[/TD]
[TD]Deliver Dashboard Report to Principals for Review[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]









Can this be done?

Thanks!

Blair

 

[Kuljack]

You'll want to add this into the On Open section.

ThisWorkbook >> Workbook >> Open

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Dim Fin As Date
Dim Subs As Date
Dim Prin As Date
[B][COLOR=#0000ff]Fin = Range("A2")
Subs = Range("A3")
Prin = Range("A4")[/COLOR][/B]
If Fin = Date Then
    MsgBox ("Update Dashboard with new financial data")
ElseIf Subs = Date Then
    MsgBox ("Update Dashboard with new subscription information")
ElseIf Prin = Date Then
    MsgBox ("Deliver Dashboard Report to Principals for Review")
End If
End Sub

Fields in blue can either be changed to the date directly, or adjusted to the appropriate cells that these dates are stored.


The DATE function in VBA is the equivalent of the today() command in a formula.