[Year 12 IT Apps] mail merge....

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Onya File Maker! From memory in Open Office, you can just drag a record out
from a database and drop it onto a document. Nothing of course beats just
nutting it all out with some raw SQL (* sound of evil laughter *)

Regards Roland


On 21/08/07, Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Ah, but in Filemaker 'tis but the work of a moment.  (Just to add
> another sub-debate!)
>
> Russell Edwards wrote:
> > I partly disagree. Mail merge with Excel is painful, but so is
> > constructing reports with Access!
> >
> > Spreadsheets are useful and the kids have to use them, so they may as
> > well learn how to link them to a mail merge.   Personally I use
> > Excel+Word to mark student work and produce 1-page-per-student results
> > summaries. Also in the spreadsheet is the attendance record and
> > calculations based on assessments (e.g. computed VELS levels
> > recommendations to be input into my brain's "on balance judgement"
> > mechanism ;-). Having to do all this in Access or another RDBMS instead
> > of Excel would take twice as long, at least.
> >
> > Russell
> >
> > On 21/08/2007, at 3:52 PM, Kent Beveridge wrote:
> >
> >> I'm with Mark on this one..mail merge with Excel IS painful !
> >> KB.
> >>
> >> Kent Beveridge,
> >> I.T. co-ordinator
> >> St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
> >> Horsham
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> >> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Kelly
> >> Sent: Tue 8/21/2007 1:31 PM
> >> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> >> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] FW: Ultranet
> >>
> >> The best advice I have is - DON'T!  Mailmerge from Excel to Word is
> >> painful and imperfect.
> >>
> >> It's far better to use a database's reporting functions. Databases can
> >> easily do record-by-record iterative reporting.  Spreadsheets can't.
> >>
> >> Anyway, having said that, here are some things I used when battling
> >> advanced mailmerge a while ago.
> >>
> >> http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/howto/merge/index.htm
> >>
> >> Enjoy.
> >>
> >> Lappin, Jason M wrote:
> >> > Hi list.
> >> > Does anyone out there have a tutorial for a mail merge from excel. I
> >> have been doing the "Artificial Realities" task and I would like to
> >> give my kids (and myself) some instructions on how to create the pay
> >> slip using the mail merge in word.
> >> > Cheers
> >> > Jason Lappin
> >> >
> >>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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