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. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Turning-spreadsheet-data-into-legible-report-tp4102146.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted