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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > -- > 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: [email protected] 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
