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Having nice looking printed scoreboards for an event such as a member guest or club championship is imperative to pull off that "wow" factor for a lot of customers. We have provided Publisher templates that we designed that you can merge with the exported scoreboard excel file.
There are a few different methods of printing large format scoreboards. For an overview of all the methods, Click Here.
In this article, we will discuss how to download scoreboards using the Publisher templates.
Downloading Microsoft Publisher Scoreboards:
The following are step by step instructions on how to download Microsoft Publisher Scoreboards.
Go to Rounds > Report Center > New Document > New Publisher Scoreboard. Select the folder to browse different types of templates. Select the Report Center category and tournament that will be used to populate the information on the scoreboard. Download the spreadsheet and Publisher file as shown below.
Open the spreadsheet. Once the file opens, click "Enable Editing", and save the file over the original. You must save this file with editing enabled to merge the data into Publisher as shown below.
Open your Publisher template, and you will be prompted to connect to external data. Click "yes", and on the next screen, choose the option to "Try to reconnect to the data source". Navigate to the Excel spreadsheet on your computer and select it. Click "okay" on the next screen and the template will be filled with data as shown below.
Make any necessary edits to the Publisher template (e.g., change colors, column widths, add logos). Once finished making the edits, go to Format tab > Merge to New. This will merge all of your data into the template, and you can then print scoreboards for your tournament as shown below.
The scoreboard template will always be available in any of the Report Center categories that it was included in. Navigate to the category to download the updated the template at any time.