I am trying to create a template in MS Excel to print similar pages but with an unique ID within each printed pages (e.g. ID: 001, 002 and so forth) but printing from one sheet only.
I am creating something like a logbook (i.e. each page is the same, only the UID is different)
Is there anyway to do so without duplicating the same sheet and insert the UIDs manually?
If the question is not clear I will rephrase. Thanks in advance!
3 Answers
This was the answer to my approach that I used: - Create a macro to change the values of the cell automatically and calls the printer to print the page. The important part of the code is the loop and printing.
Create the Macro and run it:
Sub PageNumber()
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogPrinterSetup).Show
For I = 1 To 50
ActiveSheet.Range("G28").Value = "Page " & I & " of 50"
ActiveSheet.Range("G28").Select
With Selection HorizontalAlignment = xlRight <insert all your cell formatting here>
End With
ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Printout Copies:=1, Collate:=True
Next
End SubI have a macro for taking the data from a database sheet and filling out a template sheet over and over again with the data.
The macro fills out the template and saves each one as a separate file OR creates a separate sheet, your choice. That last part can be tweaked to do other things, this is mainly to demonstrate a simple way to fill out a form from a row-based database.
There is a sample file there for simple testing and to get you going. Here's the main guts of that macro:
Option Explicit
Sub FillOutTemplate()
'Jerry Beaucaire 4/25/2010
'From Sheet1 data fill out template on sheet2 and save
'each sheet as its own file.
Dim LastRw As Long, Rw As Long, Cnt As Long
Dim dSht As Worksheet, tSht As Worksheet
Dim MakeBooks As Boolean, SavePath As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False 'speed up macro execution
Application.DisplayAlerts = False 'no alerts, default answers used
Set dSht = Sheets("Data") 'sheet with data on it starting in row2
Set tSht = Sheets("Template") 'sheet to copy and fill out
'Option to create separate workbooks MakeBooks = MsgBox("Create separate workbooks?" & vbLf & vbLf & _ "YES = template will be copied to separate workbooks." & vbLf & _ "NO = template will be copied to sheets within this same workbook", _ vbYesNo + vbQuestion) = vbYes
If MakeBooks Then 'select a folder for the new workbooks MsgBox "Please select a destination for the new workbooks" Do With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker) .AllowMultiSelect = False .Show If .SelectedItems.Count > 0 Then 'a folder was chosen SavePath = .SelectedItems(1) & "\" Exit Do Else 'a folder was not chosen If MsgBox("Do you wish to abort?", _ vbYesNo + vbQuestion) = vbYes Then Exit Sub End If End With Loop
End If
'Determine last row of data then loop through the rows one at a time LastRw = dSht.Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row For Rw = 2 To LastRw tSht.Copy After:=Worksheets(Worksheets.Count) 'copy the template With ActiveSheet 'fill out the form 'edit these rows to fill out your form, add more as needed .Name = dSht.Range("A" & Rw) .Range("B3").Value = dSht.Range("A" & Rw).Value .Range("C4").Value = dSht.Range("B" & Rw).Value .Range("D5:D7").Value = dSht.Range("C" & Rw, "E" & Rw).Value End With If MakeBooks Then 'if making separate workbooks from filled out form ActiveSheet.Move ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs SavePath & Range("B3").Value, xlNormal ActiveWorkbook.Close False End If Cnt = Cnt + 1 Next Rw dSht.Activate If MakeBooks Then MsgBox "Workbooks created: " & Cnt Else MsgBox "Worksheets created: " & Cnt End If
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End SubI used Mail Merge in MS Word. Just put the day of week and date in a separate excel file, then copied my document to a word file, and used a letter mail merge to change the days and dates on each document. Very easy..
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