Question posted 2009 ยท +4 upvotes
About a year ago, a manager in another department brainstormed that I could code up some VBA to auto call me in the event one of my automated reports crashes. I laughed at the time, but my skills have improved considerably and I wonder if it’s technically possible
(not that I’d actually do it, mind you. I like my early Saturday mornings workplace-free).
This would need:
1. Access to the internet (not a problem)
2. A means of connecting to some service to place the call, preferably free, lest I cost the company $10 a month (Skype?)
3. An automated voice (already exists on the standard Access install package)
What do you think?
Edited 08/24/2009 – Spacing added. No text was changed.
Accepted answer +10 upvotes
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work. In this case, making phonecalls is hard, but sending emails is easy.
Most cellphone providers expose a phone’s mailbox (something like [email protected]) to the internet, allowing you to send an email to that address and have it show up on your phone as a text message.
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