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That's a lot of extra work. You can make your mailmerge conditional upon
the value of a field in XL. in Word's Data Merge Manager, click the Query Options/Filter Records tab. Select your field and choose "is equal to" from the Comparison dropdown, and enter "a" in the Compare To textbox. In article , "dvya" wrote: I am using a excelsheet to track attendence at my preschool. I have a table, the first column is a list of 200 names, the next 20 columns are all the school days of the particular month. For each school day i have a letter code i.e. a=absent p=present. Every time a child is absent i have to track the reason, is the child sick? did they go on vacation? etc.. What i would like to do is to have excel automatically generate a letter that I can sent to the parents if the attendence code is "a"(absent). In my limited knoledge of excel i figured that the best way to do this is , to bring forward to another sheet every instance where "a" is used along wth the childs name and date of absence, and then run a mail merge on this sheet. Is this the best way? What formula would i use to do this? |
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John Walkenbach has a downloadable workbook demo of how to create a Mail Merge strictly using Excel if you don't want to use Word. http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip92.htm I would use Word myself, but your needs may differ. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:10:52 -0700, JE McGimpsey wrote: That's a lot of extra work. You can make your mailmerge conditional upon the value of a field in XL. in Word's Data Merge Manager, click the Query Options/Filter Records tab. Select your field and choose "is equal to" from the Comparison dropdown, and enter "a" in the Compare To textbox. In article , "dvya" wrote: I am using a excelsheet to track attendence at my preschool. I have a table, the first column is a list of 200 names, the next 20 columns are all the school days of the particular month. For each school day i have a letter code i.e. a=absent p=present. Every time a child is absent i have to track the reason, is the child sick? did they go on vacation? etc.. What i would like to do is to have excel automatically generate a letter that I can sent to the parents if the attendence code is "a"(absent). In my limited knoledge of excel i figured that the best way to do this is , to bring forward to another sheet every instance where "a" is used along wth the childs name and date of absence, and then run a mail merge on this sheet. Is this the best way? What formula would i use to do this? |
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