Hello Dan, We are using media without macros database in that chapter. Pulkit Krishna
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 11:17 AM Pulkit Krishna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Dan, > First of all, that section was rewritten by Jean( I do not want to say > that she has removed any example, there was no example in the draft). > Secondly, That section do not give any example. It just describes the steps > of mail merge.But I think it would be appropriate to include an example. I > think there was a bug in the salutation part also. I don't remember > clearly. And as you say that there are not many details, then the mail > merge has a chapter to itself in the writer guide. The base Guide only > notes important details of the steps. > Pulkit Krishna > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:35 AM Pulkit Krishna <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ok, I'll check it out. >> Pulkit Krishna >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:43 AM Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Just above the Create a Salutation page of the wizard is this paragraph. >>> >>> "In this example, three different salutations are to be produced: all >>> records with 'f' will start with *Dear Ms*, all those with 'm' will >>> start with *Dear Mr*. If no gender is given, the salutation will start >>> with *Hello*. You can click the *New...* buttons to create other >>> salutations, for example *Dear <FirstName>*." >>> >>> This is where I have problems once again. I was able to get the Wizard >>> to work by using the query, Readeraddresses. Problem here because no table >>> nor query was mentioned as the data source from the beginning. Now, there >>> is suppose to be a table or query whose first field contains one of three >>> values: f, m, or not value at all. What is its name? It is mentioned in >>> another part of the Base Guide, but I do not remember what chapter it is in. >>> >>> It is not clear to me as to what nor how this is suppose to work. There >>> is not enough *detail* for someone who wants to learn how to do this. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
