Automate printing your Excel reports

Report Runner in detail

Report Runner is an easy to use menu driven system that prints reports and graphs automatically. Eliminate having to go from file to file and remembering what you should print. Report Runner can automatically open workbooks, print reports, and close files. Multiple reports can be printed just by highlighting the desired reports and selecting print from Report Runner's menu. And, Report Runner can save a copy of the reports to an XLS file so that you can E-mail just the reports.

Report Runner uses specially designed spreadsheets and a set of menus to help you print multiple reports and graphs. It automatically opens files, prints reports, and closes files. You can print multiple reports with only one command. It is entirely menu driven. The following illustrates the main Report Runner menu:

For example, you may want to print out nine different reports, several of which are off of the same worksheet. Without Report Runner, you would have to open the files, select or confirm the different print areas, and make any needed changes to the page setup from one report to another. With Report Runner, all you do is to select the report descriptions in the Report Runner file and issue the print command from Report Runner's menu. Then sit back and enjoy!

Report Runner opens files, prints reports, and close files automatically for you. Thus, if you have many files and reports that need printing, Report Runner will totally automate the task for you. Report Runner uses spreadsheets to store your report information. You can add these to any workbook for quick access or you can create workbooks that contain just Report Runner spreadsheets. Mix the two approaches as needed.

See also in "Excel - Management related"

• To Do List Assistant - Manage your ToDo lists in Excel.