Turns out I had not done the steps to declare a proper data source, though I thought I had. That process was obscured by the fact that Ubuntu did not by default install Base, and merge only succeeded for me AFTER I had installed it. I assume it is needed for the data source declaration step.
I still feel this is a user interface misfeature-- to have the View->Data Sources menu completely missing (rather than greyed out, for example) is needlessly confusing. I have been an Office user for years, though I haven't used the merge feature in a couple of years or more. Help should also be more instructive on the overview of the steps needed: 1) Prepare the data, in a database or spreadsheet (or whatever the other options may be) 2) Declare the data source (tell Openoffice how to access the data list)a 3) Create the template document (mail or labels), and place the merge fields in the template 4) merge the data into the merge fields, then print or save the merged document -- help for label merge is (apparently) out of date https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
