Help for a teacher

[Guest]

I am a middle school teacher trying to come up with a word document that I
can use all the time. I want to be able to print a homework slip for my
students that they can take home and get signed each night, but I dont want
to have to type in the date and homework assignment each time. I was hoping
I would use a field to insert the date and assigment from either a data base
or whatever else is easy. I have done this previously with MS Works but using
Word and Access is beyond me.

The basic design im trying to do is this:

Name __(student write in) ________________ Date (field for date)

Todays Assigment is (field for homework assignment)

Parents Signature ____________________

I would like to print 6 to 8 of these per page.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

I am a middle school teacher trying to come up with a word document
that I can use all the time. I want to be able to print a homework
slip for my students that they can take home and get signed each
night, but I dont want to have to type in the date and homework
assignment each time. I was hoping I would use a field to insert the
date and assigment from either a data base or whatever else is easy.
I have done this previously with MS Works but using Word and Access
is beyond me.

The basic design im trying to do is this:

Name __(student write in) ________________ Date (field for date)

Todays Assigment is (field for homework assignment)

Parents Signature ____________________

I would like to print 6 to 8 of these per page.

Word has the abilities to do what you would like. There are several
possible tools to use.

Sorry. This is a newsgroup dedicated to questions about Access, the
database program in Office Professional. It appears your question may not
be related to these subjects. The Microsoft help system is not all that
clear and may have misdirected you here.

It is best to ask your questions in a newsgroup dedicated to the
subject of your question. You should find people better able to address
your problem there.
http://tc2.atspace.com/0013-HowToSearch.htm#FindNewsgroup may help.


Note: It is always best to indicate the name and version of any
program(s) you may be using when asking a question and also indicate the
operating system (like Windows XP or 98) when you ask a question.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Actually, you could/can use a word merge....

However, ms-access would well allow you to build a report, and several of
these could display on one page.

So, you *can* use word, and merge from your access database, but you will
likely find it just as easy to build
a report.

Simply build a report based on the students table. Use the sorting and
grouping to set the order you want (by lastname, or perhaps first name...or
even perhaps by assignment, or class).

So, just layout a report...and size it so you get about 6-8 per page...

I also do have a super easy word merge for ms-access here:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/msaccess/msaccess.html

I would try building a report....

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Word has the abilities to do what you would like. There are
several possible tools to use.

Sorry. This is a newsgroup dedicated to questions about Access,
the database program in Office Professional. It appears your
question may not be related to these subjects. The Microsoft help
system is not all that clear and may have misdirected you here.

It is best to ask your questions in a newsgroup dedicated to the
subject of your question. You should find people better able to
address your problem there.
http://tc2.atspace.com/0013-HowToSearch.htm#FindNewsgroup may help.


Note: It is always best to indicate the name and version of any
program(s) you may be using when asking a question and also indicate
the operating system (like Windows XP or 98) when you ask a question.

Sorry, I misread part of your message.

Yes you could use Access. Likely I would, but unless you want to use
Access to store the data, I would just use Word.