I am trying to generate word documents using the mail merge feature in Microsoft Word. To be as clear as possible my dream would be to:
(1) Place all values for all documents to be created in one excel document
(2) Use Word to create a template by selecting the above excel file as the data sheet
(3) Run a macro that would use the values from the excel sheet and perhaps the built in mail merge feature of Word to generate 1 file for each line in the excel sheet using one of the cells as the name of the file to be saved.
The end result would be the ability to create x number of Word documents using a template that pulls all the values from an excel sheet including the file name of the generated document.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
You can do it by using Word and Excel Automation, using languages such as Visual Basic 6 (through COM), VB .Net (through interop) or C# (through interop), for example for getting data from a database. In your case because you simply want to create a documente based on excel data the simplest manner is to use the MS Word Mail's Merge Wizard.
Take a look at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/print-labels-by-using-excel-data-in-a-word-mail-merge-HP005203760.aspx
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I am creating multiple xl files from ssis package. I assign dynamic file name to each workbook in the For Each Loop in the FileSystemTask where I copy a blank template from template directory to the output directory where all few hundreds Excel files need to be output. Part of the file name comes from the values in the loop.
Each file has 2 spreadsheets. Different SQL Query is a source for each. When I output files with 1 spreadsheet filled it is no problem. However, when I add the second source-destination or another data flow i get an error that connection string is in invalid format or other... Should I use second set of OLEDB Source/ Excel Destination within same data flow or use another data flow for second spreadsheet?
I have got the following Problem.
I have several Excel files containing each the data of a country in one folder.
However I want to pull that all into one Excel report.
As the content of the source files change dayly, I guess the best way to do that is to do a import via an SQL Statement using Union All.
However the problem is that MSQuery only allows me to Access one file at a time. Is there a Workaround for that problem?
Maybe create a data model and use DAX?
This sounds like a job for Power Query, a free add-in from Microsoft for Excel 2010 and Excel 2013, and built into Excel 2016 as "Get and Transform" in the Data ribbon.
You can create individual queries to the different Excel files in the different folder, then create a query that appends all previous queries into one table, which can be loaded to the Excel data model or a worksheet table for further processing.
The queries can be refreshed with a click when the data has changed.
I am trying to find a way to search a sas7bdat file from excel for a specific value, and then copy and paste the data into an excel spreadsheet. Currently I can add the whole data set and then search it in excel, but it would be much better if I could search the data set before adding it to excel, as the data sets are sometimes too large for excel to handle.
Is there a way of doing this? Or alternatively is there a way of running some SAS code from excel that would perform the search for me?
Many thanks,
Alastair
SAS has a Microsoft Office add-in that you can use to connect to SAS datasets from excel. See their product page for more information.
There are a few other options for connecting to SAS as a data source; you can use ODBC for example. You also can do what you describe using DDE. Finally, you can produce excel spreadsheets (but not paste into particular spots, easily anyway) using PROC EXPORT or ODS EXCEL (the latter in 9.4 TS1M2+). You can filter the dataset to the appropriate size prior to exporting.
I have SSIS Package which Exports Data from table to Excel file
Control Flow :-
Data Flow :-
This is My Step :-
Drop Excel Table
Create Excel Table with format as of my Select Query which i used to retrieve data from database
Insert Data from Database to Excel file
I Used Query Like Select * From Table Where --Some Condition
I retrieve 3000 rows out of 10000 rows and put that 3000 rows in my excel sheet.
But when open my excel sheet i saw scrollbar which goes till 10000th row and ends hence my excel sheet size also increses . how can i reduce my excel sheet size ? my excel sheet contains only 3000 rows then why blank cells which goes till 10000th row ?
SQL Server 2008 &
Visual Studio 2008 with BIDS
I believe your issue is around the method in which you are using to create the file. You have two alternatives and both should fix your issue:
Solution #1:
You can create an Excel file with those predefined columns, essentially your empty output file - this would act as your 'Template File'. Your flow would then be this:
File System Task - Copy template file to output or working directory (rename if necessary)
OLEDB Source Task - Query your source for the data (3000)
Data Conversion Task
Excel Destination Task - Put data into new Excel file
Note: You already have steps 2 thru 3 complete, you just need to make sure you are connecting to the new Excel file. Also, to clarify, step 1 is outside the Control Flow Task.
This way is helpful because you always have a blank and consistently formatted Excel file to copy and work with.
Solution #2:
The other option is to use a Script Task and create the Excel file - you could also load the data into the file in this task. This requires some basic understanding of VB.NET or C#. Basically you would need to get a XLS library (like NPOI). This is more complicated, but gives you the best functionality.
I recommend you try solution #1 and see how that works for you.
Drop table SheetName doesn't delete the sheet instead it just deletes the row . If for the 1st time you have loaded 10K rows and then again executed the package by restricting the number of rows to 3K ,the excel file will still contain those 10K empty rows as it retains the sheet along with the empty spaces .
You can use script task to delete the sheet using COM obects .But for that you need to place the Excel PIA(Primary Interop Assemply) to make it visible for VSA or else create a new excel file every time the package runs
Else as suggested by Nicarus use File System Task to delete the existing file and create a new Excel file on every execution .
Diagram :
File System Task :
Use the same components and the query for Create Table using Execute SQL task and your DFT
Iam looking for a solution to mail merge word document with the data in the sql server(say like fields fname,address,lname etc.,). I am also looking to merge images in the common template with the image from server and should also save different copies of the word document for each record in the database.
I found the nearest solution in VB at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2007/12/06/mail-merging-with-word-and-linq-to-xml-in-vb.aspx , but looking for a solution in .NET.
Anyhelp??