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Quick Way to Combine Multiple Reports from Your Staffing Software into One Excel Workbook

May 3rd, 2010

A Word About Outputting Reports to Excel from Your Staffing Software

While “being Green” or “going paperless” (as you sip a Starbuck’s Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha) seems to be the rage these days, many temporary staffing firms are still printing reports on paper.

And you know what – that’s OK!  You can still enjoy your beverage-of-choice to the rhythm of your printer.  It is worth noting that with the ability to output reports to Excel, PDF files, web pages, and text files from with our staffing software, many of our clients have gone paperless.

Nevertheless, whether you’re a “paper-printer” or a “file-saver” there probably are some reports that makes sense for you to export to Excel, since you often end up compiling data from various reports into one or more Excel workbooks.  Perhaps you already can and know how to quickly output reports from your temporary staffing software into Excel.  For instance, in our staffing software, some reports (e.g. financial statements) give you the option to export into Excel, and all reports that our clients make or have us make can be exported to Excel.
  
If you have a report that you’d like to get into Excel and aren’t sure how, talk to your staffing software provider and they should be able to show you, or setup such a report for you.

An Easy Macro that Combines Multiple Excel Workbooks from Your Staffing Software into One Excel Workbook

Once you are able to get the reports you need in Excel from your staffing software, you may find yourself copying data or sheets from multiple Excel workbooks into one workbook.  Or perhaps you have Excel workbooks from other sources that you’d like to quickly and easily combine into one workbook.

In a recent situation, a client of ours has over 10 different financial statements setup in our system – one for each profit center along with a summary statement.  Through our system, they are able to export one, two, or all ten financial statements into Excel. However, each financial statement is outputted to a separate file, so they were manually copying the worksheets into one workbook. This became time-consuming since there are numerous iterations of their financials each month.

So they asked me to find a solution.  Here’s what I found: Watch the video above to see how you can easily add a macro to your Excel workbook that quickly combines multiple workbooks into one Excel Workbook.

Google Some Other Macros to Slap onto Repetitive Time-Consuming Office Tasks

Think of some other time-consuming tasks that you regularly do in Microsoft Office products.  Chances are you can automate some part of the process with macros.  To find the solution I demonstrated above, I simply googled “combine multiple workbooks into one workbook” and found my answer in the fourth result, VBA Express: Excel – Combine All Workbooks From One Folder.

searching for macros to make your temporary staffing firm's reporting easier

I hope this saves you some time, and inspires you to experiment with some other macros.  Remember, if you think there’s a way to save time and money by doing something faster, then there probably is!

Contact us to discuss the reporting features or any other aspect regarding our staffing software solutions.  Also, feel free to email me if you’re a staffing executive or professional with further questions about macros in Excel.

Everett Reiss

Director of Marketing and Communications
Applied Systems Technology
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