Re: MAIL MERGE TO AN OPENOFFICE CALC DOCUMENT

2015-03-31 Thread Jean Lear
Hello Alexandro, I have spent a lot of time trying to get mail merge to put numbers on the raffle tickets I am trying to produce since my last e mail. Years ago I started to keep items from the Forum that I thought would be helpful to me. I thought today that I would go back and see what I could

Re: MAIL MERGE TO AN OPENOFFICE CALC DOCUMENT

2015-03-28 Thread Jean Lear
Thank you Alexandro for the suggestion of using tables. That works with a bit of fiddling to fit to an A4 page althouh for one who has relied on Calc for years to set out work it was a bit of a learning curve. I have now encountered a separate problem with the numbering of the tickets. I have

Re: MAIL MERGE TO AN OPENOFFICE CALC DOCUMENT

2015-03-28 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I see, I am sorry is giving you troubles. I am not sure exactly how to reproduce the error and all I can do is forward you some tutorials. Basically the mailmerge has to do with fields, the Mailmerge Wizards is in fact a macro that assign these fields and automagically go ahead in a sequence. To

Re: MAIL MERGE TO AN OPENOFFICE CALC DOCUMENT

2015-03-28 Thread Jean Lear
Hello Alexandro, I got another helpful hint from one of the references you gave and have now turned on the ViewFieldsShading which was turned off. I can now see the Next Record Bar with the fields I am inserting to know where I am up to with inserting the next record. I am very familiar with

Re: MAIL MERGE TO AN OPENOFFICE CALC DOCUMENT

2015-03-25 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 03:35:21 PM Jean Lear wrote: I need to print Raffle tickets with Butt and Ticket four to an A4 page. I have registered an OpenOffice Calc document containing numbers from one to seven hundred with columns for Butt and Ticket numbers as a Registered Data Base. I am