Mail Merge with Excel Charts

Anonymous
2012-06-09T04:40:44+00:00

HI,

I need to execute mail merge with excel charts, there are 100+ records in excel.

Based on certain data field i need to create a pie chart.

Using mail merge i am expected to have different pie chart for each record

Is their any way to create this functionality in office 2010 ???

Regards

Ankit

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-06-09T08:29:11+00:00

HI,

I need to execute mail merge with excel charts, there are 100+ records in excel.

Based on certain data field i need to create a pie chart.

Using mail merge i am expected to have different pie chart for each record

Is their any way to create this functionality in office 2010 ???

Regards

Ankit

Download the MergeTools – 20120609 Add-in that I created from the following page of my Windows Live SkyDrive:

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=5aedcb43615e886b#cid=5AEDCB43615E886B&id=5AEDCB43615E886B%21111

and also the Mail Merging with Charts document that is also on that page.  That document explains how you must set up the Excel Data Source and the Mail Merge Main document to be able to execute a merge with a Chart that is unique to each record in the data source.

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-05-18T21:39:55+00:00

    It is a requirement that is specific to data sources used with my Merge Tools Add-in that replaces the MERGEFIELDS in a document with DOCVARIABLE fields. 

    Word's mailmerge process deals with many irregularities in the field names in the datasource by prefixing the name of the field with M_ and there are just too many possible situations in which Word does that for the code in my Add-in to handle them efficiently.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-18T19:13:31+00:00

    What is the reason behind the field names not beginning with numeric characters and is this true for field names and excel charts in general?

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-17T17:38:30+00:00

    Please ignore my question. I saw an earlier post with this exact same issue. I selected the cell and bookmarked it rather than just where the cursor was. Worked like a dream. I am going to use it to inform my students of their test score data through the year and which topics they need to emphasize in the end of year exam. Thanks again.

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