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good day to all. I just had a general question here and hope someone is available to help.

I have a database for employees and was wondering if I could make an app or program in Access or Excel where I can assign each employee a username and password so when they log in they can print out an employment letter for example.

Basically I have the list of employees and the templates of the letters and all and well its just a matter of checking the possibilities and how to go about doing this and with which office product.

Thanks,

Will

Answer 1

First, since you have a choice, I would use Access instead of Excel.

1. Create your table of users; populate it.
2. Create your Form; add controls for sign-in; add ComboBox for "Letter Type"; add command button to "Submit"
3. Is the letter going to be customized for the user (their name, address, etc.?) or just a standard form letter? If customized, you will need to create a "Mail Merge" Word document and pass the variables to it (i.e. use VBA code in the "Submit" button) Lots of resources for this if you Google "Access Word Mail Merge VBA"
4. How will the letter be sent? Email? If so, there is VBA for that also. Good Luck.