Hi
It looks like Word's Mail Merge would be a best choice. Be sure that the
source table is on the first sheet of workbook, and has a single header row,
that there are no gaps (empty rows) in table, and be sure that the workbook
is saved. Open Word, and create a Mail Merge document - point to your
workbook as source table, when asked (don't forget to change file type -
otherwise you don't find it).
In Word you have the far more possibilities to design jour job card (using
text formatting as you like, using tables with hidden borders align texts,
etc.). When you are finished with design, you can easily generate a word
document, where every employee's info is on separate sheet(s) (the number
of sheets for an employee depends on your Mail Merge Document design),
orsend it/them directly to printer. Before generating/printing Mail Merge
document, you can estimate which rows from table are processed, or determine
filter conditions for source table (p.e. you can determine that job card for
row 24, or for rows 1-10, in your table is generated, or that a job card for
employee with Name="John Smidt" is generated, or that job cards for
employees, for which the field HireDate is bigger than some date, are
generated, etc.)
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Arvi Laanemets
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This one must be very easy for someone who knows his or her way around
Excel, clearly I don’t,(though I have tried) or I would have made some
progress myself.
I have had the pleasure of designing a job card dumped on me at work.
I’ve managed that much. However filling in all the fields is tedious
and slow even with data validation/drop-downs. Then, I thought to
myself; all the data required for the cells in the job card is in an
excel spreadsheet in columns headed:-
Account code, Name, Address1, Address2, Address3, Postcode, Phone,
Make, Model, VIN, Date of purchase.
Therefore, it must be possible to achieve some sort of “auto-complete”
status.
Consequently what I would like to do is type an account number into
cell A1 on sheet 2, then, on pressing the "enter" key, and by the magic
that is excel programming all relevant details would appear on sheet 1:-
the customer’s name will appear in cell B5, Address1 will appear in B6,
Address2 will appear in B7, Postcode will appear in B8, Phone number
will appear in B9, Make in B11, Model in B12, VIN in B13, and Date of
purchase in B15.
So I have turned to you clever friendly folk for any help or advice you
can give.
I must stress that cutting, pasting and a bit of data validation shows
the limit of my knowledge of excel. Consequently simple instructions
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for taking the time
to read this.
John
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justjohn
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