Fill the data in excel to the visio from the template that i have.

Sharath,

It will be a few days, but I'll let you know when I have something to look at. In the meantime, I'll need two things from you:

1) A template with fields boxes arranged as you want them (there's no hurry -- I can test with the default layout generated by my macro).

2) A spreadsheet that contains 5-10 rows of data. Please change names, employee numbers and any other personally identifiable data before uploading.

Scott

Ok Scott i shall prepare them and post in a couple of days... :-)

Scott one Q... Can i have the page size bigger that A4?
As the fields to arrange is very difficult with the available space...

Please omit the above comments. I reduces the colums to make it perfect on what is required to to that.

Attached is the vsd that has the details.
Can you please make it look good when a print is taken with the lines straigh all size to match each other.
All in a line to match the grid lines.

Hope they resize as per the data in the cells so names or email addresses differ as they may be big. In such cases adjust accordingly.


Template.txt

Scott i want the html to be names as the NTlogin. So can use them to be mailed.

Html file names as the colum that has the Ntlogin.

Very busy next couple of weeks but I will get back to this....

Regarding making the template look neat, I'll leave that up to you, largely because I don't know how you would like things aligned. You can use Visio's align function to ensure that everything is perfectly straight. Just select a group of shapes, the choose Shapes/Align from the main Visio menu. It will probably take some experimentation to get exactly what you want (undo is extremely use if you align things in a way that doesn't look good), but you can make things line up any way that you'd like. The new macro I'll provide  will fill in the text boxes on any template built from the first macro, so you'll always be able to move things around in the template and then run the "fill-in-the-blanks" macro again.

Re lining the arrows up with the boxes: If an arrow has come unglued from the shapes at either end, just select the arrow and you'll see either one or two green squares at the ends; green means that end is not glued; red means it is glued. For any that aren't glued, just drag the green square into the center of a rectangle and when the rectangle has a red outline, let go of the mouse -- now the end of the line will be red and it will be glued to the exact center of the rectangle.

You are correct that the text boxes will resize to accommodate the text. After we look at some pages created from the test data you send, you may need to move things around a bit, but we won't know that until we see you data on the pages.

Ok Scott thanks

Scott thank U

When i run the macro it asked me for the xls when selected it created the sheets with the NTlogins but no data got filled

It does work with the sample data that you sent in a previous question (I'be attached it here). It should work with any file that has exactly the same column names -- that how the data is matched to empty text boxes.
Excel-Sample1.xls

Thank U Scott worked perfect...
Just realized that my data is in row 2 and has few more colums at the end newly added and a spell mistake in one of the headers
After changing all the 3 i got it working

I want the Size of the Data to be 1 size smaller that the headers at present its too small.

Posting a new Q for the Saveas Html now...

Will the macro not work if the header data is changed?
If i add some more colums at the end of the last colum will it now work.

The macro will work with additional columns of data. It's written so that it reads across the header row until it reaches the last used column. However, if you've added columns since you created the template, you'll need to rerun the first macro to create title and text box shapes for the new columns.

Re font sizes: the title boxes have 8 pt text and the data boxes are 4 pt. Would you like the data boxes to be 7 pt or 6pt?

Data boxes to 7 would be fine...
I have added the new colum in excel but will not need them in Visio. So you can go ahead with the next step on saveas
THX