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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.


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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.

 

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