I have been using merging in MS Word for printing labels for a museum's
jukeboxes. I cannot figure how to do this using my doc files with Libre Office,
as it wants me to create new files, and much work doing custom layouts in Word.
I do not want to start over, just be able to merge two already
You're presumably talking about mailmerging?
What (type of file) are you merging into your doc file?
Tentatively, you should just be able to change the fields in your doc
file so that LO recognises them as mailmerge fields (I don't think
it'll automatically recognise them).
This does depend
I am doing a mail merge, although not a letter or an email. I have been doing
the merger from another .doc file. The template uses multiple fonts with
different spacing for each line. For the jukebox labels, the type has to fit
into boxes to show the phonograph record's artist, and the name of
I have not merged files in MS since word 6 for DOS, so things may have
changed since then. I take it you have 2 .doc files, one is the label
layout, is the other a comma separated list of the information to put on
the labels?.
How many labels per page.
I merge performance data (serial number,
Yes, and I can use spread sheets with the same column headings. Libre Office
did not just let me merge the template I used in MS Word using the same date
sheet in either a .doc file or an .xls file. I was hoping there was a easy
substitution without redifining the fields. I will experiment
If not too private, can you email the label doc to me off list and I can
see how it comes up in writer in regards the field definitions.
steve
On 2012-03-06 09:05, Dave Reese wrote:
Yes, and I can use spread sheets with the same column headings. Libre Office
did not just let me merge the
