Answers.Body: <p>Use a Thank-You Letter.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Run a contribution report for 2016.</li>
  <li>Select the individual(s) you want to create reports for</li>
  <li>In the Actions dropdown, select "Thank-You Letters for Contributions"</li>
  <li>Select your Grouping (I use Contact)</li>
  <li>Select Your separator-- Comma will put all information into groups separated by commas, Table Cell will separate each contribution into it's own row (Table Cell is buggy)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Here is a very helpful posting about this
  <a href="https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-user-guide/blob/master/docs/contributions/manual-receipts-and-thank-yous.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-user-guide/blob/master/docs/contributions/manual-receipts-and-thank-yous.md</a></p>
  
  <p>Somethings I have learned along the way:
  1. The bugginess of the Table Cell option can be overcome with Foreach code. I can send you my code but we use LineItems with all our donations so it might not work so well for your setup.
  2. There are limits of how many letters Civi can handle at one time. I think it is 600 and that may be due to the PDF generator limits. </p>
  
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Body: <p>We are a church using CiviCRM.  We are at the time of year where we need to print out or email statements to our donors showing the tax deductible contributions they made so they can itemize these deductions on their tax returns.  How do I print individaul statements for these donors? Is there a way to sort this report so it will print all individual statements or would I have to run each report one at a time?  All donations have been properly input into the system and are ready to go.</p>
  
Tags: <contributions><custom-reports>
Title: Need to know how to print annual donation statements for our donors
ThreadText: # Need to know how to print annual donation statements for our donors
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-23)
  
  We are a church using CiviCRM. We are at the time of year where we need to print out or email statements to our donors showing the tax deductible contributions they made so they can itemize these deductions on their tax returns. How do I print individaul statements for these donors? Is there a way to sort this report so it will print all individual statements or would I have to run each report one at a time? All donations have been properly input into the system and are ready to go.
  
  **Tags:** contributions, custom-reports
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-01-23. Score: 3
  
  Use a Thank-You Letter.
  
  1. Run a contribution report for 2016.
  2. Select the individual(s) you want to create reports for
  3. In the Actions dropdown, select "Thank-You Letters for Contributions"
  4. Select your Grouping (I use Contact)
  5. Select Your separator-- Comma will put all information into groups separated by commas, Table Cell will separate each contribution into it's own row (Table Cell is buggy)
  
  Here is a very helpful posting about this
  <https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-user-guide/blob/master/docs/contributions/manual-receipts-and-thank-yous.md>
  
  Somethings I have learned along the way:
  1. The bugginess of the Table Cell option can be overcome with Foreach code. I can send you my code but we use LineItems with all our donations so it might not work so well for your setup.
  2. There are limits of how many letters Civi can handle at one time. I think it is 600 and that may be due to the PDF generator limits.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Here is more info about the Table Cell Separator issue  http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/15466/how-do-i-use-table-cell-separator-when-creating-thank-you-letters/16818#16818  
  > **username_2**: I am on CiviCRM 4.7.15 and I don't see Thank You letter option in actions.  
  
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