Re: No Longer Using OpenOffice
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I always say things like ”I think people are stupid until the opposite is proven”, not that I mean it very much, it's just fun to say some times… but if the above method really works, then at least some people must be really stupid… so I just hope that you are wrong there… :) FUD is very old in IT circles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt I saw it happen in the 1990s in the CompuServe forums, Microsoft used the tactic against IBM's OS/2 Warp. Do a Google search for Barkto incident. Barkto incident http://www.isham-research.co.uk/barkto.html Then it was repeated against AIM: Fake security consultant alerting on dangers of AIM turns out being MS employee Microsoft Employee's Attempt to Discredit AOL's AIM Backfires http://www.net4tv.com/voice/Story.cfm?storyID=1335 Microsoft Says Worker Wrote Smear of Rival http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/13/business/microsoft-says-worker-wrote-smear-of-rival.html?pagewanted=allsrc=pm So, FUD sadly continues to be used. Even in FOSS circles sometimes FUD is used against corporations that are FOSS players by competitors claiming to be community when they want to wrestle control of a project away from a firm... And don't forget another weapon in FUD: sock puppetry... Even dead people write in support of MS http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010823slug=microlob23 BM outed as Microsoft´s sock puppet https://web.archive.org/web/20110830181115/http://www.catchingflack.com/2007/09/burson-marsteller-outed-as-microsofts-sock-puppet/ The fact that MS got caught red handed a handful of times makes you think how many times they did the same but didn't get caught. :-/ FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
Re: Pringing adrs labels
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests.
Re: Pringing adrs labels
That worked like a charm, Alan. Thanks so much for your help. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests.
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Re: Pringing adrs labels
Thanks, Alan. I'll give that a shot. I appreciate your time advice. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests.
Re: Pringing adrs labels
Glad to assist. And thank you for letting us all know your results. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: That worked like a charm, Alan. Thanks so much for your help. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Alan B abo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Maurice Howe mauriceh...@gmail.com wrote: I need help printing mailing labels for a newsletter. My data is a .doc file comprised of a TABLE with names, addresses, etc. Using writer/tools/mail-merge, I get as far as use-current-doc/letter but the insert address block fields are grayed-out. The select-address-list tab shows my filename but I can't get past that. Hello Maurice - I've tried a few experiments to perform mail merge. I have not been able to find a way to have the source of the data be in a .doc file (or a .odt file for that matter). The instructions I found provide reference to using a text file or a spreadsheet as the data source. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets My suggestion would be copy the address table from the Word document into a spreadsheet. (I tested copy from Word table into Calc spreadsheet and that preserved the column and row layout.) Then use the spreadsheet as the data source. This method worked in my tests. -- Alan Boba CISSP, CCENT, ITIL v3 Foundations 2011
