Hello Jean, *,
On Friday 23 September 2005 06:42, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> I've been going through the "Printing Envelopes" section of the
> "Printing with Writer" chapter and have a question and a request
> for the list.
>
> The question is: can I use mail merge to create a series of
> envelopes to be printed?
It seems, that this is not possible ... :( I have tried it with
OOo-1.9.130, but was not able to do it ...
> If so, how? It's not in the mail merge
> chapter, and I don't see anything obvious in the mail merge
> wizard, which seems to do only letters or emails. I confess I
> haven't taken the time to dig around on my own; I'm hoping
> someone can save me the trouble by pointing me in the right
> direction -- or, even better, writing something on this topic for
> the Printing chapter.
The only way I see is using "Insert - Envelope" (it is a translation
of my German version. It could be named differently tho ... :( ).
As I have not set up my address book, I could not test it,
sorry ... :(
> The request is: would someone (Rob, perhaps?) please write a
> section for the Printing chapter on how to use the
> database/table/database field boxes on the Envelope tab of the
> Envelope dialog?
Yes, please ... ;)
> I don't have time to write it, but I think it
> should be included in the chapter... starting with a very short
> bit about connecting to a data source so it shows up in the
> Database list in that dialog.
We could also link to the relevant chapter(s) of the Base Guide ...
<snip>
HTH
Thomas.
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