[users] how to eliminate page breaks in mail merge?

2010-05-25 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, I have a need to do a mail merge in which the merged text is a sequence of contiguous paragraphs on continuous pages, rather than a sequence of pages with 1 paragraph one each successive page. The only way I've discovered to do this is to take the 1 para/page text save it as

Re: [users] java defective?

2010-04-21 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday 15 April 2010 12:09:45 am Harold Fuchs wrote: On 15 April 2010 02:37, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Hi, I recently installed openoffice 3.2.0 on my Fedora 11 box. I occasionally get a startup message complaining about my java version. I used Firefox to test

Re: [users] java defective?

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday 15 April 2010 12:09:45 am Harold Fuchs wrote: On 15 April 2010 02:37, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Hi, I recently installed openoffice 3.2.0 on my Fedora 11 box. I occasionally get a startup message complaining about my java version. I used Firefox to test

[users] java defective?

2010-04-14 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I recently installed openoffice 3.2.0 on my Fedora 11 box. I occasionally get a startup message complaining about my java version. I used Firefox to test the installation at Sun's site and it says I'm ok, version like this: Version: Java 6 Update 17 Operating System: Linux

[users] converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer have access to the original .odt format. I've installed the sun-pdfimport extension and can open the file in draw. If I read the documents right I should now be able to resave in .odt but neither save as nor export offers me this format. Does

Re: [users] mail merge instructions for version 3?

2010-03-11 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 05:51:50 pm RA Brown wrote: Dave Stevens wrote: I've been trying to read through the instructions for mail merge and can only find docs for version 2. Is there a source for version 3? I'm using 3.1.1. Dave Hi Dave, Have you tried the OOoAuthors site

[users] mail merge instructions for version 3?

2010-03-10 Thread Dave Stevens
I've been trying to read through the instructions for mail merge and can only find docs for version 2. Is there a source for version 3? I'm using 3.1.1. Dave - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For

[users] directory template?

2009-12-21 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, I have a spreadsheet with one row of information, about 20 fields, for each of several hundred organizations. I'd like to use OO to produce, with as little fuss as possible, two products - one a working web page (i.e., valid html) and the other a pdf, each to be an on-line and