On 7 Mar 2005 at 19:22, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Tony Pursell wrote: > > > The problem with the new Wizard is that it is the only way to easily > > get the multi letter file. But there are lots of scenarios, > > particularly in the business world (which I'm sure we would all like > > to see OO.o used in) where the Wizard would fall short of what is > > needed. > > You have some options to circumvent some steps of the wizard. So you > can start with a prepared document of your own and let the wizard do > only the "merge" step. If you want to get rid of the wizard completely > you can develop your own component (maybe even in Basic) that uses the > MailMerge API of OOo to do what you want.
Thanks for your reply, Mathias. Yes I know you can do both of these, but it does rather miss the point. It should be easy to do Mail Merge the way it is in MS Office. It can never be a serious option to tell someone that they must develop their own component in order to migrate from MS Office. > If you have some particular suggestions how MailMerge in OOo could be > improved the best way is to file enhancement requests in Issuezilla. > It will not be possible to do anything for the OOo2.0 release but we > hope it will not be the last one. :-) I have posted one issue as a bug. I suspect I will be suggesting other as enhancements. I just need some time to work out in my own mind what would be the best way to adapt the new Wizard approach to make it more useful. > I'm not a mail merge expert, so please forgive me if I don't comment > on your observations, but I'm sure that if you create some enhancement > requests (possibly after some discussion here) they will be seriously > considered by the developers. > >From the lack of response to my posts on both this list and on 'users' it seems nobody is as passionate about mail merge as I am. I had hoped I might get a discussion going but it seems that few people are interested. If I have time I will pusue this further. Thanks again for your reply Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
