Thanks, Alan. I'll give that a shot. I appreciate your time & advice.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B <abo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe <mauriceh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a > ".doc" > > file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. > > > > Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but > > the "insert address block" fields are grayed-out. The > select-address-list > > tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. > > > > Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have > not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc > file (or a .odt file for that matter). > > The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a > spreadsheet as the data source. > > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets > > My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a > spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that > preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data > source. > > This method worked in my tests. >
