https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113753
Bug ID: 113753
Summary: MailMerge should support reading data from CSV, and it
should be easily discoverable how to do it
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.1 all versions
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Mail Merge doesn't seem to have an obvious way of using a CSV file as a data
source.
What I tried:
File->Wizards->AddressDataSource
Other external data source
Settings
There it only propose various database types (MySql, dBase), applications with
address books (Thunderbird), etc. but no CSV
However, there is "text".
When I chose that, I can navigate to the directory where I have my CSV file
stored, but no matter whether I call them something.csv or something.txt they
are not shown.
Maybe it's possible, but for sure it's not "discoverable".
In the end I got my mailmerge working by loading it into a mysql database, but
that's not how it's supposed to be, and not how to win over new users (indeed,
I was showing a friend how to do mailmerge, and he was shaking his head at the
complexity involved... :-( )
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