I have a user who has been using Excel for a while to keep statistics
and print reports. She finds using it cumbersome because of long
formulas and a lot of copying and pasting.
I have designed a database for her which is intended to make things a
lot easier; however, I don't have a lot of experience with Access and
I find that designing the reports in Access is tedious. I want to be
able to print the reports (which are simply based on queries) from
Excel because I find Excel much easier for the formatting.
I also need this task to happen automatically. For instance, using a
user-interface, she simply clicks on the type of report she wants and
Excel opens up displaying the report exactly as it should be printed
(all the correct formatting, etc.). She then merely has to click
Print in Excel. Of course, it would be good if Excel opened, printed,
and then closed automatically, but I am considering the possiblity
that she may want to modify the report or the page settings on
occaison, although I doubt this.
Is it possible to export the data from an Access query into, for
instance, a pre-formatted Excel template? This would help me greatly.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
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Steven Stewart