I can browse to a spreadsheet directly without first attaching it to a
database, but that's just a kludge. LibreOffice creates the base file
when you select the spreadsheet, which brings me back to the same problem.
On 27/04/16 07:24 PM, Bruce Hohl wrote:
Reportedly, as of LO 5.1 you can
Reportedly, as of LO 5.1 you can create a mail merge without a Base file -
reference this: http://vmiklos.hu/blog/mail-merge-embedding.html You might
try to recreate your Certificate mail merge without the Base file being
careful to select cell formats for your data that work with Writer. (If
I've tried it with Debian/Stretch v5.1.2.2.0+ and Windows 7 v5.1.3. If I
was running anything old or unusual, I would have noted it. The document
is simple, as is the spreadsheet and the base file that connects them.
I tried changing the numbers to text but Base doesn't seem to allow
that.
I'm trying to print certificates for a group of athletes and need to
have them reflect their standing in the event. The certificate has a
number of conditional text fields, such as to translate their gender
from M/F to male/female, which are working.
However the ones that are doing numeric
I do not use the PPA for LibreOffice. I prefer to "manually" download
whichever version of LO I want, when I want, for my laptops and desktops
- Ubuntu and Windows.
Yes, some with Ubuntu 16.04LTS will want to use a PPA, but my question
is if Ubuntu 16.04 would update LO and other packages
NO, I do not use more than one workspace. Last time I did, I forgot
about an opened package on the second or third workspace and reopened it
in the first workspace.
Gnome Classic? Well, I liked the look of the default Gnome desktop for
Ubuntu 10.04. When I switched to 12.04LTS, I chose
