luke
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posted on 28/12/09 at 08:38 PM |
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excel help - mail merge?
hey all,
need some excel help if possible. I run an explorer unit which is scouts 14 - 18, and instead of distributing health forms every activity we do, we
put out a generic health form that covers all activities for that year. Now its time for these to be renewed, and im looking for a pain free way.
I currently have all the data on a excel spreadsheet, and what i was planning to do is create a letter, with all the current information we have, so
parents can check, ammend as needed, and just sign. Now is there an easy way of doing it without spending hours copy and pasting data from excel to
word?
I currently have the top row as data columns, then the data in rows below, so i would need to create the a seperate form for each row of the
spreadsheet.
any help would be much appreciated!
Luke
[Edited on 28/12/09 by luke]
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paul the 6th
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posted on 28/12/09 at 09:03 PM |
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not really my field of expertise but I don't know if this would come under macro's, but more 'mail merge' where you create a
template letter with <autoname> and <autonumber> type tags (these are not correct format, just examples hashed up from memory) - the tags
correspond to the headings of the data in excel...
so if you had a column headed "Names" and then the list of names below, all the names would magically drop into the letter...
I'm sure there's tutorials on mail merge on the net, and that's if there's no useful info in the word/excel help dialogues...
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luke
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posted on 28/12/09 at 09:05 PM |
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ah excellent! dont know where i dreamed macros from! ill google and read!
any other help from anyone would be appreciated!
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luke
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posted on 28/12/09 at 09:48 PM |
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all sorted now! now i knew what i was looking for a internet tutorial sorted it fine!
thanks!
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paul the 6th
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posted on 28/12/09 at 10:54 PM |
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no worries buddy
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