OK, before I spend weeks expereimenting I thought I'd see if someone can suggest the best way to import a list:
The list will be a long list of members (think along the lines of your old paper phone directory) - name, address number etc.,.,. The data will come to me in excel format (it did last year) so I can then do whatever might be appropriate with it - import to ooo-calc and the save to CSV, mail merge to ooo-writer etc... Last year's directory was produced in MS Publisher (ouhc!) and was mail-merged in, which works in Pub. Scribus doesn't have mailmerge and I don't think it should - but how do I then achieve a layout like this: *Name* Address /Telephone No/ *Name* Address /Telephone No /*Name* Address /Telephone No /*Name* Address /Telephone No ... /For those reading in plain text that is: <bold>[Name]</bold> <tab> [Address] <tab> <italic>[Telephone No]</italic> I've just checked with the editorial team and they are quite inistent that the in line formatting is needed. (Otherwise a straight import from CSV would work!) There would seem to be three options: Import into Scribus and apply all the formatting by hand in scribus - which is a complete nightmare as this will wrap over several pages... Import column by column - but if an address takes up two lines then everyhting goes out of kilter. Import into another package - apply formatting and then import to scribus. ooo-writer would be a good option (using mail-merge) - but then how can that be imported in and keep the formatting? Anyone got any good ideas? Calum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051121/a56304d1/attachment.html
