PATools Cheque Merge is a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet that allows you to print your standard UK blank cheques from your cheque books - just tear them out and print.

It should save you time and boredom, plus improve accuracy when you have a significant number to write out.

Tear out your blank cheques, flip through to ensure they do not stick together in the printer, and then use a normal printer (so long as the guides can be set small enough) together with this spreadsheet.

Simply enter in a list of payees, amounts in numbers and the cheque dates and hit 'Run'.

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Note: The template supplied should work for most standard cheques without alteration, but the sheet is left unprotected so you can modify borders, fonts, column widths etc to make it work for your cheques and printer. (Oh yes, and if you foul it up, just download a new version again here!)

'Rules' for use - break these and it will not work properly!

• Do not change the names of the 2 worksheets - Details and Template

• The Details sheet must not be changed from Rows 1 to 9 incl

• The Details sheet from Row 10 must contain each cheque date, payee and amount in that order

• The Template sheet should only have formatting changed if necessary (as described above); do not change the content

Please note this software has not been approved by any UK banks or the clearing systems they operate - we should recommend that you seek agreement from your bank before using this (although it has been in use for some time with major UK banks without issue).

We also found that some cheques will 'ghost' ink across the cheques when they pass through a printer, and sometimes the alignment may not be perfect - neither issue has ever been a problem so far.

For new users, the software will run on an evaluation basis, which means that you can use it for as long as you wish but it will only run 2 cheques at a time.

You can purchase a license 24/7 using our secure automated service from this webpage below.

1) Right-click this link and save the file to a location of your choice.

   PAToolsChequeMerge.xls

2) Open the spreadsheet (you will need to enable macros) and test it out. NB Please note the 'rules' above.

No need to uninstall your current version - simply download as above.

Contact us if you have problems.

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Licenses expire after 1 year.

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