The real question is what sort of report she needs. It's all good and
well showing us a screenshot of a document with two sheets, but without
knowing what you want to do with that data, there's really no advice we
can give.
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:54:51 -0700 (PDT)
Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote:
Hello
A friend is a school teacher and needs to publish a report from the
data she keeps in an Excel document. In addition, she only has access
to Word/Excel, while Access is not available (she doesn't know
databases, anyway.)
I originally thought Word's mail merge would do, but without
programming, it only supports reading data from a single sheet, while
data is kept in multiple sheets (one by year). Here's a screenshot of
a mock document I re-created in LO:
http://postimg.org/image/v2au21zsh/
Unless someone knows of a good, programming-free, Excel-based
solution, it looks like the right way to solve this problem is to
stop using Excel as poor man's database, and write a real database
application with tables, relations, input forms and report output...
but she obviously doesn't have the skills, doesn't have internal
resources available for help, and I can't spend time on this.
I know it's akward to ask this in an LO mailing-list, but can someone
experimented confirm that there's no MS Office-based solution (either
internal or third-party), and that moving to LibreOffice Base is the
way to go?
Thank you.
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