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excelmail merge

ResolvedVersion 2016

Tina has attended:
Excel Advanced course

Excel/Mail Merge

Hello

I run a virtual learning environment. Each course in this environment has a role that allows some users to edit the course area. This means they place content in there. I would like to be able to send the tutors reports on the usage in the course area. I have created a query that gives me a massive spreadsheet with each tutor identity and a link to each course where they can access a report of usage.

The problem is many of the tutors can edit across many courses. This means that there is a row per tutor per course.

tutor1, course1
tutor1, course2 etc

If i use this data for an email merge, I will end up with one email per course, which will mean multiple emails and general annoyance.

I would like to reformat that data so I can get a single record for each tutor that gives a list of the reports they can access like this:

tutor1, course1, course2,course3 etc.
tutor2, course1, course2,course3 etc.

Any help you can give with this would be very appreciated.

Tina

RE: Excel/Mail Merge

Hi Tina,

I would suggest using a Pivot Table, a technique used in the Advanced course. This might help you consolidate the Tutors into Tutor1, Tutor2 etc.

Martyn has just passed on your details. I will give you a call at 1 if I can still be of help.


Kind regards

Richard Bailey
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RE: Excel/Mail Merge

Hello

Please call as I am really stuck with this.

Thanks

RE: Excel/Mail Merge

Hi Tina,

I have replied to your email with more detail. Apologises, we may not have an answer to your request before next week.

Kind regards

Richard

Thu 13 Apr 2017: Automatically marked as resolved.

Excel tip:

Use the SUBTOTAL function in Excel

You can create subtotals in your spreadsheet using the SUBTOTAL function, which looks like this:

=SUBTOTAL(9,cell:cell)

9 represents the function being used (SUM), followed by the range of cells the function is operating on.

The neat thing about using the Subtotal function is that if you have used it several times in the same column or row, clicking on the AutoSum button at the end of the column or row will make Excel add only the results of cells containing the Subtotal function in that column or row.

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