Hello to All, First, thanks to everyone that has chimed in to help, I'm not used to receiving the number of quality replies that you folks have offered. What a wonderful forum. Since I was overwhelmed with responses, I'm trying to respond to all in this one post. I believe that I have the problem solved, or at least moved further down the road. When I initiate the print command, LO asks if I want to print a form letter. Responding with "Yes" brings up and error message that "The Data Source could not be found", hence I stopped and tried to figure out where the connection problem was. It appears though that it did indeed did find the source. Andreas mentioned to press F4, and when doing so there was my data, though LO thinks that it is header info so I will need to re-configure to either tell LO there is no header data, or have FM export header data. It would be helpful if the entry in the "Guide" would mention that the path to the data actually goes to the folder that contains the data rather then the actual data file. Also, I am intrigued by the possibly of setting this up with an OBDC as the data source and eliminating the text file all together. Even though I am very limited in my knowledge in this area, this sounds like something worth trying. Thanks again to each of you!!! Charles On 6/24/2012 9:17 AM, Andreas Säger [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: Dan Lewis wrote Have you opened the file you exported from Filemaker using a text editor? This should tell you what the structure is and what separators you need to use. Exactly. In the end it is just text with a certain structure and nothing magic. When the wizard asks what the file to use, it only wants to know what folder contains the file. It will then open all the text files in that folder. This is why any text data sources should have their separate folder. As Alex mentioned, you should also look at the file's extension. If the file has the correct structure, renaming the file extension to .csv might help. --Dan This is because the wizard does exactly the same as you can do manually when you connect a Base document with a folder of similarly structured text files. Therefore it asks for the exact same information. Folder name, file name extension (.csv, .tsv, .txt, .anything), separators (comma, semicolon, tabs, whatever). Once you've done that your folder of text files is a data source, a repository of tabuar data. Nevertheless, if the exporting Filemaker database resides in the same network you may ask the person who exports the text files if he can set up an ODBC data source. Then you could read from the database without any text file import nor export. You (or the "wizard") simply connect a Base document to a named ODBC source and always use the current database data instead of data copies in text files which may be out of date. If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Need-Help-Setting-Up-Mail-Merge-tp3991923p3991964.html To unsubscribe from Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge, click here . NAML
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