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Hello to everyone,
this is my first post on this forum, im neewbie in LibreOffice world. Recently i have move my office work completly on Linux from Windows.
Sice im running my small business start-up i need somehow to write my invoices. Before on Windows platform i had small software which i cant use anymore because company who maked software doesnt exist anymore ( software was clous based ).
Now i started to use LibreOffice Calk template ( https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/e ... generation ).
Template works great even after few modifications which i maked ( company details, translation on German language etc ), but now i have little problem which i dont know how to solve ( i didnt use office tools since my high school ) and that is automated import client data from client list.

Inside of template i have added one more sheet called "client list" and i have filled 15 rows with "clients", i have few columns for basic data ( client number, name, adress, post, town, country, phone, email ).

my idea is that start invoice template and choose "Invoice_easy_to_add" type of invoice and choose client by client number/name and that template autofill all another data automaticaly.

i googled good hour but i didnt found any practical solution. maybe i dont know how to google correct hints

if someone can help me whit some idea/link/tutorial etc i would be really thankful.

cheers ,
Alex

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100% of all professional accounting solutions are based on a database. These application never use any spreadsheets except for export. You can not store lists of products, clients and client's invoices consistently in a spreadsheet. At least, I have not seen any spreadsheet that could be more than a mock-up.
If you really feel the need to build your own invoicing solution, you should learn database development. Even the worst database tool (which is Libre/OpenOffice Base) is better than the best spreadsheet (which is Excel). [Example] Invoice Forms (without macros)

@Villeroy
I think excel will do thing for me cos i have in total 30 clients and 5 products. Database will maybe be too much for me. I see that you comming from Germany, so my type of startup is kelingewerbe and im not obligated to have some " professional" accounting solution. but i will try with this what you gave me in your answer.

thanks