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Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook

By : Andre Odnoha
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Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook

By: Andre Odnoha

Overview of this book

<p>Excel is one of the mostused software tools in the world and just about every business has a copy somewhere. Despite its power and flexibility it is not always clear how to use it to perform some of the most important tasks in any business: organizing, analysing, and presenting financial information.<br /><br />Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook contains a rich collection of useful techniques for handling financial data in Excel. From integrating data from a variety of different sources, through organazing and analyzing financial data, to presenting it in a variety of graphical forms, this book has you covered.<br /><br />The book deals first with "normalizing" financial data -- that is, bringing data from a number of different sources into a single format where you can analyze them together. Then you'll learn techniques for managing and analyzing the data before discovering ways to present it graphically. The book then looks at Excel's built in features for financial analysis, and even shows how you can combine the built in features to build your own analysis functions.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Excel 2010 Financials Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding a graph to e-mail automatically


A picture is worth a thousand words, and since a graph is a picture of data, it is equally as valuable. To share that value with others, you must have the ability to share the graph with others so they may also benefit from the data. However, sharing the workbook that created the graph presents a security issue, and may expose sensitive information to users who do not need it. The next best option is to add your graph to an email to share with another.

In this recipe, you will learn to use VBA code to send your current graph as a static image to an email recipient hence preserving your data's security and privacy.

Getting ready

We will begin this recipe with a basic graph of transactions. The code in this recipe will send any graph regardless of the size or content.

How to do it...

We will begin by opening the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) to add the code that will perform the email function:

  1. 1. Within Excel, press Alt + F11 on your keyboard to open the Visual...