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Old 09-18-2021, 01:51 AM
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Hi, I am new to this forum and I have searched through the page but I am not sure how I can get what I want. So I m opening this post looking for help.

I have a 5 pages documents with workers' information for taking their attendance throughout a week.

Page 1: Company A Workers
Page 2: Company B Workers (p.1)
Page 3: Company B Workers (p.2)
Page 4: Company C Workers
Page 5: Company D Workers

The excel file is simply showing the date in a week.
13/9/2021
14/9/2021
15/9/2021
16/9/2021


17/9/2021
18/9/2021

Merge mail works in generating a document in below order:
Page 1: Company A Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 2: Company B Workers with date 13/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 3: Company B Workers with date 13/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 4: Company C Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 5: Company D Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 6: Company A Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 7: Company B Workers with date 14/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 8: Company B Workers with date 14/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 9: Company C Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 10: Company D Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 11: Company A Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 12: Company B Workers with date 15/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 13: Company B Workers with date 15/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 14: Company C Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 15: Company D Workers with date 15/9/2021
and so on.

However, How can I generate a document, or simply just print the document in order below?
Page 1: Company A Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 2: Company A Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 3: Company A Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 4: Company A Workers with date 16/9/2021
Page 5: Company A Workers with date 17/9/2021
Page 6: Company A Workers with date 18/9/2021
Page 7: Company B Workers with date 13/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 8: Company B Workers with date 14/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 9: Company B Workers with date 15/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 10: Company B Workers with date 16/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 11: Company B Workers with date 17/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 12: Company B Workers with date 18/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 13: Company B Workers with date 13/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 14: Company B Workers with date 14/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 15: Company B Workers with date 15/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 16: Company B Workers with date 16/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 17: Company B Workers with date 17/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 18: Company B Workers with date 18/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 19: Company C Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 20: Company C Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 21: Company C Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 22: Company C Workers with date 16/9/2021
Page 23: Company C Workers with date 17/9/2021
Page 24: Company C Workers with date 18/9/2021
Page 25: Company D Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 26: Company D Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 27: Company D Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 28: Company D Workers with date 16/9/2021
Page 29: Company D Workers with date 17/9/2021
Page 30: Company D Workers with date 18/9/2021

OR

Page 1: Company A Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 2: Company A Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 3: Company A Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 4: Company A Workers with date 16/9/2021
Page 5: Company A Workers with date 17/9/2021
Page 6: Company A Workers with date 18/9/2021
Page 7: Company B Workers with date 13/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 8: Company B Workers with date 13/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 9: Company B Workers with date 14/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 10: Company B Workers with date 14/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 11: Company B Workers with date 15/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 12: Company B Workers with date 15/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 13: Company B Workers with date 16/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 14: Company B Workers with date 16/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 15: Company B Workers with date 17/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 16: Company B Workers with date 17/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 17: Company B Workers with date 18/9/2021 (p.1)
Page 18: Company B Workers with date 18/9/2021 (p.2)
Page 19: Company C Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 20: Company C Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 21: Company C Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 22: Company C Workers with date 16/9/2021
Page 23: Company C Workers with date 17/9/2021
Page 24: Company C Workers with date 18/9/2021
Page 25: Company D Workers with date 13/9/2021
Page 26: Company D Workers with date 14/9/2021
Page 27: Company D Workers with date 15/9/2021
Page 28: Company D Workers with date 16/9/2021
Page 29: Company D Workers with date 17/9/2021
Page 30: Company D Workers with date 18/9/2021


Please help me
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Have you used the Edit Recipient List and then specified the sort order on the two fields (Company then Date)?
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Have you used the Edit Recipient List and then specified the sort order on the two fields (Company then Date)?
It only makes the output document having blank information....
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Then perhaps you need to post your sample data and merge document so we can see what you are doing. Sorting the data shouldn't remove records - but filtering it might.

An alternative might be to link the Excel data into an Access Database and create a report that shows the data in the format you want it.
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Then perhaps you need to post your sample data and merge document so we can see what you are doing. Sorting the data shouldn't remove records - but filtering it might.

An alternative might be to link the Excel data into an Access Database and create a report that shows the data in the format you want it.

So the attached files are the samples.
1. Company Attendance Record.docx --> 6 pages word document processing mail merge with different names on each pages
2. Date List showing the date of a week I want to appear in the attendance sheet
3. Output is how the file turned out
4 & 5 is what I want, separating each company to a different files OR in order such as Company A (19/9/2021)
Company A (20/9/2021)
Company A (21/9/2021)
Company A (22/9/2021)
Company A (23/9/2021)
Company A (24/9/2021)
Company B (19/9/2021)
Company B (19/9/2021)
Company B (20/9/2021)
Company B (20/9/2021)
Company B (21/9/2021)
Company B (21/9/2021)
Company B (22/9/2021)
Company B (22/9/2021)
Company B (23/9/2021)
Company B (23/9/2021)
Company B (24/9/2021)
Company B (24/9/2021)
Company C (19/9/2021)
Company C (20/9/2021)
Company C (21/9/2021)
Company C (22/9/2021)
Company C (23/9/2021)
Company C (24/9/2021)
...and so on

Please help.
Attached Files
File Type: docx Company Attendance Record.docx (20.8 KB, 6 views)
File Type: xlsx Date List.xlsx (10.1 KB, 7 views)
File Type: pdf Output.pdf (326.6 KB, 6 views)
File Type: pdf Company A (wanted).pdf (84.3 KB, 5 views)
File Type: pdf Company B p.1 (wanted).pdf (84.5 KB, 5 views)
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Your date list doesn't have a column for employee names. Does that mean the list of employees is static?

The Date List contains duplicate records. Should they be ignored or do you want a sheet for each record

Is the colour of the names in your output documents pertinent to what you want? If so, what does the colour mean?

It appears to me that the simplest solution for this is to use Microsoft Access. Is there a reason you are trying to do this with Word?

Finally, if staying in Word, I would suggest you work through the tutorial pinned at the top of this forum https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...-tutorial.html as this looks like it aligns reasonably closely with what you are trying to do.
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1. Your date list doesn't have a column for employee names. Does that mean the list of employees is static? <-------Yes. The list of employees is static.

2. The Date List contains duplicate records. Should they be ignored or do you want a sheet for each record <-------- I want a sheet for each record.

3. Is the colour of the names in your output documents pertinent to what you want? If so, what does the colour mean?<-------The colour has no meaning.

4. It appears to me that the simplest solution for this is to use Microsoft Access. Is there a reason you are trying to do this with Word?<-------I don't know how it works.




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Your date list doesn't have a column for employee names. Does that mean the list of employees is static?

The Date List contains duplicate records. Should they be ignored or do you want a sheet for each record

Is the colour of the names in your output documents pertinent to what you want? If so, what does the colour mean?

It appears to me that the simplest solution for this is to use Microsoft Access. Is there a reason you are trying to do this with Word?

Finally, if staying in Word, I would suggest you work through the tutorial pinned at the top of this forum https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...-tutorial.html as this looks like it aligns reasonably closely with what you are trying to do.
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If you want to do this with a mail merge then I would create a separate source document for each company and have a single merge field containing a series of dates. The data source would just contain incrementing dates like
20/9/2021
21/9/2021
22/9/2021
23/9/2021
24/9/2021

The more labour intensive (to create) method would be to devise a macro which asks for start and finish dates and prints out the relevant pages without using a merge source at all.
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