Thanks, Peter & thanks, Tony.
It seems like an unnecessary extra step to register a data source, but
maybe I'm not thinking clearly.
I'll try this again.
Dwight
PS. I was pleased to see that 3.1 opened a *.docx file with no problem.
Tony Pursell wrote:
On 3 Jun 2009 at 11:49, Dwight Clough wrote:
Hi
I've used Open Office for three years, love it. I mainly use Open Office
Writer. I find it more stable than MS Word. And I love the ability to
export to pdf. However, unless I'm just not getting something, I find it
difficult to create mailing labels in Open Office. The process seems
cumbersome to me. I often just end up using MS Works to create labels
instead.
It seems to me that mailing labels should be a snap. Pick the Avery
number, enter return address data on one label and print. For outgoing
labels: It should be easy to create a data source using Open Office
Calc, but I haven't figured out how to do it. I recently switched from
2.4 to 3.1 - have these issues been addressed in the update? Does
anybody know?
You can use a Calc spreadsheet as your address data source, but you
need to register it as a data source first. There is, confusingly, about
half a dozen ways of doing this!
One way is to go Tools > MailMerge Wizard > Next > Next > Select
Different Address List > Add, Select you spreadsheet > OK > Cancel
It will now be in the drop down list of data bases when you do File >
New > Labels.
Hope this helps.
Tony
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