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Default Different info per printed page

Zathrath,

It just isn't possible in Excel. Unless you write a macro, and then anything is possible.

The easiest way to do this is with a Word mail merge. It can use your Excel list, and will
print one document (page or pages) per row of the list. Then next time you want to do the
printouts, you don't need to create the mail merge document again -- it will use the current
data in the list at the time you run the mail merge.

Unfortunately, you've put the data in different sheets, so you have more than one list.
This means setting up a mail merge document for each sheet. Better to put all the grades in
one sheet, with an additional column for the class. See "Data across multiple sheets" at
http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/excel_truths.htm for an explanation. You can get fancy and
have a column for the semester, then add a query to the mail merge, so it pulls only the
semester you're interested in printing out, allowing you to keep adding grades semester
after semester if you want to keep the grade history. If you do, put all the stuff in one
sheet. That'll be the most usable thing.
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"Zathrath" wrote in message
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Oh, and please just let me know if this just isn't possible.

"Zathrath" wrote:

My wife is a teacher and uses Excel to keep track of student grades. Up to
this point, she's been having to manually type student names and grades into
a word document in order to give the students printouts.

What I'm trying to do for her is make either a Word document or an Excel
spreadsheet that will grab information from different cells for each page to
print.

I've got each of her classes on a different worksheet with the student names
down column A and their overall class grade in column B. I've also got
averages in different areas (quizes, tests, homeworks, etc) in other columns
based upon the number of assignments in each area. I'd like to have a
document that will print a different students information on each page.

Thanks for your help.