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![]() Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Kettering, Northants
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 55 | I would like to take a word document. I would like to merge into it data from an excel spreadsheet. However, one of the fields is the location of a picture (student piccies) and I would like to insert the picture in rather than just "d:\pics\008789.bmp" (which doesn't really work anyway as the mail merge strips out the punctuation) Any ideas on this? Oh yeah ... it is for printing off at 9 am tomorrow morning, all because SIMS won't flippin' do it!!! |
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![]() | What version of SIMS? SIMS.Net will allow it via the reports. Just create one including the field containing the picture. |
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 55 | Yep ... tried that ... if you take the standard report and try and doctor it to get what I want if fails to put in the picture ( an known feature apparently due to the way office 2002 and upwards deal with the INCLUDEPICTURE code to try and prevent malicious pictures running nasty code ... even though lots of places have it all working Capita don't like it and so tell you to bugger off. Strangely they do say that there are several commenrcial packages out there that will do exactly what we want ... and that we should by into it. We sort of have it sorted now though, thanks to Mark and thanks to Stephen ... the final merge not only needs to be load into a new document it needs to be refreshed again afterwards to make sure there is an different picture in each record. Now all I need to do is print them off and laminate then ... it is almost worth the cost of going for a commercial package to save the time, hassle and make it easy for a non-techie person just to select the studnet and click print. |
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![]() | @GrumbleDook: If the problem is with Office, why not try it with a superior product |
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 55 | I did ... I used my mac and Automator and can get what I want very easily ... the idea is to have it so that is a duplicate lunch pass is needed it can be run of by one of the student office staff and is linked to our MIS so we are not having to change student information in yet another database. That is why I wanted it in SIMS. It is sorted for the moment ... but I will be looking for alternatives around February next year ... |
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