[ubuntu-uk] Non Ubuntu help please- Add info from Excel into MS word

[ian pettitt (RRes-BB)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Walton-Rivers
> Sent: 14 September 2010 14:22
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non Ubuntu help please- Add info from Excel
> into MS word
> 
> Hello,
> The feature i think your looking for is called mail merge. I don't
> have access to microsoft word right now so i can't talk you though it.
> 
> Joseph Walton-Rivers,
> webpigeon at gmail.com | www.webpigeon.me.uk
> 
> 
> 
> On 14 September 2010 14:16, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Please forgive me asking a totally non ubuntu question here. I have
> looked
> > everywhere for an answer to this question but no luck.
> > At work i frequently have to write up letters which get sent to
> various end
> > users.  The customer data is provided via a excel spreadsheet.
> > I have just added links to the pre-typed letters to the spreadsheet
> so i can
> > easily access them. what i would like to do is somehow get the
> Customer name
> > and address details and automatically clicking the link be able to
> populate
> > that letter with those details. Hope this makes sense.
> > If someone could help me out with this i would really appericate
> this.... :)
> > --
> > Regards
> > Javad
> >
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/use-mail-merge-to-create-and-print-letters-and-other-documents-HA101857701.aspx

Should have all the info you need

Ian