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In Excel I have multiple pivot tables tied to about 40 Power Queries which takes about 10-15 minutes to refresh on a fast desktop PC (AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8 core at 3.7GHz w 32 GB RAM, DDR4 on Win11-64 Pro.). I'd like to get a notification (ring/text/email) when the refresh is complete. Perhaps there's a Power Query function out there that can pass data to a VBA object when the refresh process is complete, but I haven't found it. Can anyone help?
I use a Macro for almost all my reports however the downside is for it to work you have to turn off the background refresh for all queries and turn on the fast load option (thinking about it now you can probably just set it for the loaded query but I've never tried that!). If you dont it'll just ping the MsgBox straight away 😞
Sub RefreshAll()
'
' RefreshAll Macro
ActiveWorkbook.RefreshAll
MsgBox "Update Complete", vbInformation, "Update"
End Sub
If you find a better way I'd be interested as it is frustrating locking up excel whilst reports are updating!!
Thanks,
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