I have an Excel file with a list of names as follows:
*--------------------------------------*
| Last, First Middle | email@site.edu |
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All email addresses are "@site.edu"
I have a Word file like this
Dear <name>,
...
Is there a way to automatically save a copy of the Word document with the name cell inserted over and save the file as "email" where "email" is the email address without site.edu?
I would also like to change to be First Middle Last, but I can handle that by saving the Excel as .CSV and using a text editor with regular expressions. I just don't know enough about the capabilities of Office to know if this is possible to automate.
It sounds like you just need to use Word's mail merge feature, which will allow you to use the Excel list as a source file for the salutation names and will create a personalized letter/document for each row. They could then print the whole merged document.
you can do alot with JScript, obviously only targeting Windows/IE. You can access your documents via IE too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7sw4ddf8(v=vs.85).aspx this link has a function for manipulating an Excel document, there's also a section for Word. http://www.thescriptlibrary.com/Default.asp?Action=Display&Level=Category3&ScriptLanguage=VBScript&Category1=Microsoft%20Office&Category2=Microsoft%20Excel&Title=Add%20Formatted%20Data%20to%20a%20Spreadsheet i'm sure you can put them together into what ya need. sorry for not doing it for ya, i hate opening up Office documents.