Automatic document creation

[standsolid]

I ship about 10 PCs a month to sales reps and I have to ship a slew of documents that go with each PC (things like website access instruction, passwords, HR paperwork, shipping paperwork etc) and it's a pretty time-consuming task right now (edit each document and fill in the user's name, pretty much)

Is there a guide on creating a one-step process to do this all for me?

Basically I want to have it create all the documents (from templates), and save the copies as PDF files.

Thanks for the help.

 

[FredDibnah]

Open Office will happily handle mail merging and macros. So first I would enter the information you require to be merged in to the format of your choice. There are several options all covered in the help section under 'Mail Merge'. Then create the templates to merge the data in to. Finally create a macro that will open all the required templates with the click of a mouse.

That's the simplistic answer, to actually do it will take quite a bit of planning and experimentation.